Psalms 139:23
Psalms · Old Testament · Chapter 139
“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:”Psalms 139:23
What Does Psalms 139:23 Mean?
Psalms 139:23 is found in the book of Psalms, chapter 139, verse 23 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Psalms 139:23 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Proverbs 4:23“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”Psalms 26:2“Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.”Job 31:6“Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.”1 Peter 1:7“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”2 Corinthians 13:5“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”Proverbs 17:3“The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.”Deuteronomy 8:2“And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.”Psalms 139:1“O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.”Jeremiah 17:10“I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”Lamentations 3:40“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.”Zechariah 13:9“And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.”Jeremiah 11:20“But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.”John 3:21“But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”Malachi 3:2“But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:”Deuteronomy 8:16“Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;”Psalms 19:12“Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.”Psalms 77:6“I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.”Job 10:2“I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.”Job 34:21“For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.”Proverbs 12:5“The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.”
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