Psalm 17:3

In The Shadow Of Your Wings

² Let my vindication come from You,
for You see what is right.
³ You have tested my heart;
You have examined me at night.
You have tried me and found nothing evil;
I have determined that my mouth will not sin.
⁴ Concerning what people do:
by the word of Your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.

Devised Evil

In Me

No

Sin

Job 23:10

Yet He knows the way I have taken;
when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

Psalm 26:2

Test me, Lord, and try me;
examine my heart and mind.

Psalm 39:1

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”

Psalm 66:10

For You, God, tested us;
You refined us as silver is refined.

Zechariah 13:9

I will put this third through the fire;
I will refine them as silver is refined
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
and I will answer them.
I will say: They are My people,
and they will say: Yahweh is our God.”

1 Peter 1:7

so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 16:7

I will praise the Lord who counsels me—
even at night my conscience instructs me.

Psalm 139:1

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, You have searched me and known me.

Malachi 3:2

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who will be able to stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire and like cleansing lye.

1 Samuel 24:10

You can see with your own eyes that the Lord handed you over to me today in the cave. Someone advised me to kill you, but I took pity on you and said: I won’t lift my hand against my lord, since he is the Lord’s anointed.

1 Samuel 24:12

“May the Lord judge between you and me, and may the Lord take vengeance on you for me, but my hand will never be against you.

1 Samuel 26:11

However, because of the Lord, I will never lift my hand against the Lord’s anointed. Instead, take the spear and the water jug by his head, and let’s go.”

1 Samuel 26:23

May the Lord repay every man for his righteousness and his loyalty. I wasn’t willing to lift my hand against the Lord’s anointed, even though the Lord handed you over to me today.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at dawn
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.

Psalm 7:4

if I have done harm to one at peace with me
or have plundered my adversary without cause,

Psalm 11:5

The Lord examines the righteous and the wicked.
He hates the lover of violence.

Psalm 44:17-21

All this has happened to us,
but we have not forgotten You
or betrayed Your covenant.

Psalm 119:106

I have solemnly sworn
to keep Your righteous judgments.

Proverbs 13:3

The one who guards his mouth protects his life;
the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.

Jeremiah 50:20

In those days and at that time—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
one will search for Israel’s guilt,
but there will be none,
and for Judah’s sins,
but they will not be found,
for I will forgive those I leave as a remnant.

Hosea 7:6

For they—their hearts like an oven—
draw him into their oven.
Their anger smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who dream up wickedness
and prepare evil plans on their beds!
At morning light they accomplish it
because the power is in their hands.

Acts 11:23

When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he was glad and encouraged all of them to remain true to the Lord with a firm resolve of the heart,

Acts 16:9

During the night a vision appeared to Paul: A Macedonian man was standing and pleading with him, “Cross over to Macedonia and help us!”

Acts 18:9-10

Then the Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent.

1 Corinthians 4:4

For I am not conscious of anything against myself, but I am not justified by this. The One who evaluates me is the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.

James 3:2

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.