3The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
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.
As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3)Note, 1. The hearts of the children of men are subject, not only to God’s view, but to his judgment: As the fining-pot is for silver , both to prove it and to improve it so the Lord tries the hearts ; he searches whether they are standard or no, and those that are he refines and makes purer, Jer. 17:10. God tries the heart by affliction ( Ps. 66:10 , 11 ), and often chooses his people in that furn…
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