Examining and Searching

The Word of God says a lot about the topic of examining and searching. Sometimes it is God doing the search or examining and other times it is us who must partake in those acts. Enjoy the following list of scriptures about those aspects of the faith and I pray it is edifying to you all. 
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Job 10
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
6That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest
 after my sin?
7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none
 that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job 32
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged
 understand judgment.
10Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine
 opinion.
11Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your
 reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
Psalm 26
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and
 my heart.
3For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have
 walked in thy truth.
4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in
 with dissemblers.
5I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not
 sit with the wicked.
Psalm 44
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the
 secrets of the heart.
22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
 counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalm 77
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient
 times.
6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune
 with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable
 no more?
Psalm 139
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and
 know my thoughts:
24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me
 in the way everlasting.
Proverbs 4
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the
 issues of life.
24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips
 put far from thee.
25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look
 straight before thee.
26Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be
 established.
27Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy
 foot from evil.
Proverbs 20
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching
 all the inward parts of the belly.
28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is
 upholden by mercy.
Ecc 1
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching
 all the inward parts of the belly.
28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is
 upholden by mercy.


Haggai 1
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Jeremiah 17
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.


Lamentations 3
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Ezek 34
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.


John 5
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Acts 17
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.


Romans 8
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
1 Cor 2
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1 Peter 1
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.


1 Cor 11
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
2 Cor 13
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Revelation 2
And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.


God be praised

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