Proverbs

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

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

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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.