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If you try my heart, if you visit me by night,
    if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me;
    my mouth does not transgress.(A)

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Though you probe my heart,(A)
    though you examine me at night and test me,(B)
you will find that I have planned no evil;(C)
    my mouth has not transgressed.(D)

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10 See, I have refined you but not like[a] silver;
    I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.(A)

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  1. 48.10 Cn: Heb with

10 See, I have refined(A) you, though not as silver;
    I have tested(B) you in the furnace(C) of affliction.

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And I will put this third into the fire,
    refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
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.’ ”(A)

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This third I will put into the fire;(A)
    I will refine them like silver(B)
    and test them like gold.(C)
They will call(D) on my name(E)
    and I will answer(F) them;
I will say, ‘They are my people,’(G)
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.(H)’”

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In this you rejoice,[a] even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials,(A)

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  1. 1.6 Or Rejoice in this

In all this you greatly rejoice,(A) though now for a little while(B) you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.(C)

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so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.(A)

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These have come so that the proven genuineness(A) of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire(B)—may result in praise, glory and honor(C) when Jesus Christ is revealed.(D)

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