Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

New American Standard Bible

For You have tried us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.

King James Version

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

For you, God, tested us, to purify us like fine silver.

A Conservative Version

For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

American Standard Version

For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

Darby Translation

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Julia Smith Translation

For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.

King James 2000

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us like as silver is tried.

NET Bible

For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.

The Emphasized Bible

For thou didst prove us, O God, Thou didst refine us, according to the refining of silver:

Webster

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

World English Bible

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Praise For God's Mighty Acts

9 who preserves our life among the living, and doesn't allow our feet to be moved. 10 For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined. 11 You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.


Cross References

Psalm 17:3

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Isaiah 48:10

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Zechariah 13:9

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

1 Peter 1:6-7

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been been grieved by various trials,

Deuteronomy 8:2

You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

Deuteronomy 13:3

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

Proverbs 17:3

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.

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