Psalms 66:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.”
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BSBPD
“For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 66:10 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
- Deuteronomy 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
- Deuteronomy 13:3you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
- Psalms 17:3You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
- Proverbs 17:3A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
- Proverbs 25:4Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for a silversmith will come forth.
- Isaiah 48:10See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
- Zechariah 13:9This third I will bring through the fire;I will refine them like silverand test them like gold.They will call on My name,and I will answer them.I will say, ‘They are My people,’and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
- Malachi 3:3And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.
- 1 Peter 1:6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
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