Psalm 66:10
For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast refined us as silver is refined.
Psalm 17:3
Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast refined me and hast found no iniquity; that which I thought did not pass through my mouth.
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will put the third part into the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried; He shall call on my name, and I will hear him; I will say, My people, and he shall say, The LORD is my God.
1 Peter 1:6-7
In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way by which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness to afflict thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.
Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, a food which thy fathers knew not, afflicting thee and proving thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
Deuteronomy 13:3
thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Job 23:10
But he has known the way that I take; he has tried me, and I have come forth as gold.
Proverbs 17:3
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tries the hearts.