- Examine me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and understand my thoughts.
See if I follow an evil way,
and guide me on the way to eternity. - Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? If he is not, then you have failed the test.
- Let us examine and test our ways
and return to the Lord. - Test everything, and hold fast to what is good. Avoid every form of evil.
- Beloved,
do not trust every spirit,
but test the spirits
to see whether they are from God.
For many false prophets
have gone out into the world. - Bring the tithes in full into the treasury
so that there may be food in my house.
Put me thus to the test,
says the Lord of hosts,
and see if I will not open
the windows of heaven for you
and pour down blessings upon you
without measure. - And yet he is aware of everywhere I go;
if he were to test me, I would emerge like pure gold.
My footsteps have not strayed from the path he established;
I have followed his way and never turned aside. - For you, O God, have put us to the test;
you have purified us as silver is refined. - The heart is more deceitful than any other thing,
and it is also perverse.
Who can uncover its secrets?
I, the Lord, search the heart
and probe the mind
to reward all according to their conduct
and as their deeds deserve. - Blessed is the man who perseveres when he is tempted, for when he has been proven, he will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
- When you search for me, you will find me. When you seek me with all your heart.
- Make your ways known to me, O Lord;
teach me your paths. - Keep falsehood and lying far from me;
give me neither poverty nor riches,
but simply provide me with the food that I need. - I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he set me free from all my fears. - Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a resolute spirit within me. - Just as the living Father sent me
and I have life because of the Father,
so whoever feeds upon me will live because of me. - Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever receives the one I send
receives me,
and whoever receives me
receives the one who sent me. - And anyone who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
- If anyone wishes to serve me,
he must follow me.
Where I am,
there also will my servant be.
If anyone serves me,
my Father will honor that person. - Father, allow those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may behold my glory,
which you have bestowed on me
because you loved me
before the foundation of the world. - You are a place of refuge for me;
you preserve me from trouble
and surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah - When you call out to me and come forth and pray to me, I will listen to you.
- With the Lord to protect me I am not afraid.
What can mortals do to me? - You have given me the shield of your salvation;
your right hand sustains me,
and your goodness makes me great.
You broadened the path beneath me
so that my feet have never stumbled. - If you love me,
you will keep my commandments.
In you, O Lord, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
in your righteousness deliver me.Ah, Lord God, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and your outstretched arm. Nothing is impossible for you.