Bible verse
I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
Jeremiah 17:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 17.
6 He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
7 But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
8 He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
10 I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
11 Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
12 A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
KJV
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.
ASV
I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
ERV
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
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