Proverbs 25:4

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Remove the impurities from silver, and a vessel will come forth for the refiner.

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  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 In a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay; some are for honorable use and some for dishonorable. 21 If anyone cleanses themselves from the latter, they will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the Lord tests hearts.
  • Isa 1:25-27 : 25 I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purify your dross as with lye and remove all your impurities. 26 I will restore your judges as at the beginning, and your counselors as at the start. Afterward, you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City. 27 Zion will be redeemed through justice, and her repentant ones through righteousness.
  • Ezek 22:18 : 18 Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead inside a furnace—they are the dross of silver.
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, purifying the Levites and refining them like gold and silver, so they may bring offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold that perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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  • 3 A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the Lord tests hearts.

  • 5 Remove the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

  • Job 28:1-2
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    1 Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

    2 Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is smelted from ore.

  • 25 I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purify your dross as with lye and remove all your impurities.

  • 21 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, but a person is tested by their praise.

  • 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, purifying the Levites and refining them like gold and silver, so they may bring offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

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    38 The wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold.

    39 The entire lampstand with its utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.

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    18 Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead inside a furnace—they are the dross of silver.

    19 Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because all of you have become dross, I am going to gather you into Jerusalem.

    20 Just as silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with fire, so I will gather you in my anger and wrath, and I will deposit you there and melt you.

  • Jer 6:29-30
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    74%

    29 The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.

    30 They are called rejected silver, for the LORD has rejected them.

  • 11 Set the pot on its coals empty, so that it may become hot and its bronze burned. Its filthiness will melt away; its corrosion will be consumed.

  • 22 Your silver has become dross, your wine is diluted with water.

  • 22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my wrath upon you.

  • 6 Because of the oppression of the poor and the groaning of the needy, 'Now I will arise,' says the LORD; 'I will place them in the safety they long for.'

  • 4 to design artistic works, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

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    14 They took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the dishes, and all the bronze utensils used in the temple service.

    15 The captain of the guard also took the firepans and the sprinkling bowls—everything that was made of gold and silver.

  • 19 As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

  • 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,

  • 9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz—the work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple, all made by skilled workers.

  • 17 he may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide his silver.

  • 23 Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart.

  • 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

  • 5 Gold for the gold work and silver for the silver work, and for all the work done by the craftsmen. Now, who is willing to consecrate themselves to the LORD today?

  • 24 He made the lampstand and all its accessories from one talent of pure gold.

  • Num 31:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22 Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

    23 everything that can withstand fire, you must pass through the fire, and it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of purification. And everything that cannot withstand fire, you must pass through the water.

  • 29 Make its plates, dishes, pitchers, and bowls for pouring drink offerings; make them of pure gold.

  • 10 Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

  • 10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

  • 10 For You, God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver is refined.

  • 22 Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, 'Away with you!'

  • 15 Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

  • 32 He is able to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze.

  • 24 and assign your gold to the dust, and the gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,

  • 22 The snuffers, basins, cups, and firepans made of refined gold; and the doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the temple hall were overlaid with gold.

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    20 In a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay; some are for honorable use and some for dishonorable.

    21 If anyone cleanses themselves from the latter, they will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • 3 And this is the offering you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze;

  • 16 How much better to get wisdom than gold, to gain understanding rather than silver!

  • 14 He assigned the weight of gold for all gold articles used in every kind of service, and the weight of silver for all silver articles used in every kind of service.

  • 17 He also gave instructions for the pure gold forks, sprinkling bowls, pitchers, and the weight for each gold basin and for each silver basin.

  • 4 By your wisdom and understanding, you have made wealth for yourself, and you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.

  • 31 Make a lampstand of pure gold. It is to be made of hammered work: its base and shaft, its cups, its bulbs, and its flowers are to be of one piece with it.

  • 4 Then take some of these again, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From it, a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

  • 3 As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.