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Psalm 26:2

Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

1By David. Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering.
2Examine me, LORD, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
3For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.
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“Examine me” puts David’s claim of integrity under God’s scrutiny, raising the question of how willing you are to have your inner life tested.

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11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 139:23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.Both prayers ask God to search the speaker’s inner life, naming the heart and asking to be tried.
2 Corinthians 13:5Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless …Both texts speak of examination and testing; David asks God to examine him, while Paul directs believers to examine themselves.
Galatians 6:4But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.Examination concerns the person’s own life in both texts, with David naming his heart and mind and Galatians naming work.
Psalm 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.David asks for his heart to be tried in Psalm 26; Psalm 17 speaks of God having already proved it.
Proverbs 17:3The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.Both texts name the LORD as the one who tests hearts; Proverbs compares that testing with refining precious metals.
Psalm 7:9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.Both psalms speak of God searching hearts and minds, placing the inner life under his examination.
Zechariah 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I …Both passages speak of God testing people; David requests testing, while Zechariah describes it through the refining of silver and gold.
Revelation 2:23I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according …Both passages name the searching of hearts and minds; Revelation places that searching within a warning of deadly judgment.
Job 13:23How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.Both speakers seek God’s assessment of themselves; Job asks to know his sins, while David asks for examination.
Job 31:4–6Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?Both texts place a person’s life before God’s scrutiny, with Job naming his steps and David his heart and mind.
Jeremiah 20:12But the LORD of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.Both prayers address the LORD as examiner of the inner life, naming the heart and mind.
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Encouragement

David asks for examination with God’s loving kindness before his eyes. You have grounds to bring your heart and mind before the same Lord whose truth he trusts.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).