Proverbs 25:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour. 21 If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
  • Isa 1:25-27 : 25 And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal; 26 And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town. 27 Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.
  • Ezek 22:18 : 18 Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap. 3 He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

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  • Prov 17:3
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    3The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • Prov 25:5
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    5Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.

  • Job 28:1-2
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    1Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

    2Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

  • Isa 1:25
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    25And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;

  • Prov 27:21
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    21The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

  • Mal 3:3
    75%

    3He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

  • Exod 25:38-39
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    75%

    38And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best gold.

    39A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.

  • Ezek 22:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.

    19For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.

    20As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.

  • Jer 6:29-30
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    29The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.

    30They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

  • Ezek 24:11
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    11And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

  • Ezek 22:22
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    22As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.

  • Ps 12:6
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    6The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.

  • Exod 31:4
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    4To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;

  • 2 Kgs 25:14-15
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    14And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.

    15And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men.

  • Isa 40:19
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    19The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

  • Prov 2:4
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    4If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

  • Jer 10:9
    71%

    9Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

  • Job 27:17
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    17He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

  • Prov 26:23
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    23Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.

  • Isa 48:10
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    10See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.

  • 1 Chr 29:5
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    5Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work?

  • Exod 37:24
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    24A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.

  • Num 31:22-23
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    22But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,

    23And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.

  • Exod 25:29
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    29And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold.

  • Prov 8:10
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    10Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.

  • Job 23:10
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    10For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.

  • Ps 66:10
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    10For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

  • Job 3:15
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    15Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

  • Exod 35:32
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    32As an expert designer of beautiful things, working in gold and silver and brass;

  • Job 22:24
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    24And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

  • 2 Chr 4:22
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    22The scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, of the best gold; and the inner doors of the house, opening into the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, were all of gold.

  • 2 Tim 2:20-21
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    70%

    20Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.

    21If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

  • Exod 25:3
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    3And this is the offering you are to take from them: gold and silver and brass;

  • Prov 16:16
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    16How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

  • 1 Chr 28:14
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    14Of gold, by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of different uses; and silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for vessels of different uses;

  • 1 Chr 28:17
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    17Clear gold for the meat-hooks and the basins and the cups; for the gold basins, gold enough by weight for every basin; and silver by weight for every silver basin;

  • Ezek 28:4
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    4By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:

  • Exod 25:31
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    31And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.

  • Ezek 5:4
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    4And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,

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    3The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.