Proverbs 17:3
A crucible tests silver, and a furnace tests gold, but the Lord tests the attitude of mind.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
In Context
4Evil people listen to spiteful talk, and liars pay attention to malicious words.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:2Remember how for these forty years the Lord your God has led you all the way through the desert, humbling you and testing you in order to find out what you were really thinking, and whether or not you would keep his commandments.
1 Chronicles 29:17I know, my God, that you look on the inside and are happy when we live right. Everything I have given willingly and with an honest heart, and now I have seen your people here giving happily and willingly to you.
Job 28:1“There are silver mines and places where gold is refined.
Psalms 66:10God, you have tested us, refining us like silver.
Proverbs 21:2People think that whatever they do is fine, but the Lord looks at their motives.
Isaiah 48:10Look how I've refined you, but not like silver—I chose you in the furnace of trouble.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:3
2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. Note, 1. True merit does not go by dignity. All agree that the son in the family is more worthy than the servant ( John viii. 35 ), and yet sometimes it so happens that the servant is wise, and a blessing and credit to the family, when the son is a fool, and a burden and shame to the family. Eliezer of Damascus, though Abram could not bear to think that he should be his heir, was a stay to the… Read the whole commentary →