Proverbs 25:4

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Remove the dross from the silver, and material for the silversmith will emerge;

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use. 21 So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
  • Prov 17:3 : 3 The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.
  • Isa 1:25-27 : 25 I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag. 26 I will reestablish honest judges as in former times, wise advisers as in earlier days. Then you will be called,‘The Just City, Faithful Town.’” 27 Zion will be freed by justice, and her returnees by righteousness.
  • Ezek 22:18 : 18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. 3 He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the LORD a proper offering.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 17:3
    80%

    3The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.

  • Prov 25:5
    77%

    5remove the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

  • Job 28:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1III. Job’s Search for Wisdom(28:1-28)No Known Road to Wisdom“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.

    2Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

  • Isa 1:25
    77%

    25I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.

  • Prov 27:21
    77%

    21As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person must put his praise to the test.

  • Mal 3:3
    75%

    3He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the LORD a proper offering.

  • Exod 25:38-39
    2 verses
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    38Its trimmers and its trays are to be of pure gold.

    39About seventy-five pounds of pure gold is to be used for it and for all these utensils.

  • Ezek 22:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.

    19Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says:‘Because all of you have become slag, look out!– I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem.

    20As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can blow on them to melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you.

  • Jer 6:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.

    30They are regarded as‘rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”

  • Ezek 24:11
    74%

    11Set the empty pot on the coals, until it becomes hot and its copper glows, until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot is consumed.

  • Isa 1:22
    73%

    22Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

  • Ezek 22:22
    73%

    22As 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 anger on you.’”

  • Ps 12:6
    73%

    6The LORD’s words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

  • Exod 31:4
    73%

    4to make artistic designs for work with gold, with silver, and with bronze,

  • 2 Kgs 25:14-15
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    73%

    14They also took the pots, shovels, trimming shears, pans, and all the bronze utensils used by the priests.

    15The captain of the royal guard took the golden and silver censers and basins.

  • Isa 40:19
    72%

    19A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.

  • Prov 2:4
    72%

    4if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,

  • Jer 10:9
    71%

    9Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish and gold is brought from Ufaz to cover those idols. They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths. They are clothed in blue and purple clothes. They are all made by skillful workers.

  • Job 27:17
    71%

    17what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

  • Prov 26:23
    71%

    23Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.

  • Isa 48:10
    71%

    10Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.

  • 1 Chr 29:5
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    5for gold and silver items, and for all the work of the craftsmen. Who else wants to contribute to the LORD today?”

  • Exod 37:24
    71%

    24He made the lampstand and all its accessories with seventy-five pounds of pure gold.

  • Num 31:22-23
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    22‘Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

    23everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.

  • Exod 25:29
    71%

    29You are to make its plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings; you are to make them of pure gold.

  • Prov 8:10
    70%

    10Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

  • Job 23:10
    70%

    10But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

  • Ps 66:10
    70%

    10For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.

  • Isa 30:22
    70%

    22You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”

  • Job 3:15
    70%

    15or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.

  • Exod 35:32
    70%

    32to design artistic designs, to work in gold, in silver, and in bronze,

  • Job 22:24
    70%

    24and throw your gold in the dust– your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines–

  • 2 Chr 4:22
    70%

    22the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary(the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

  • 2 Tim 2:20-21
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    70%

    20Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use.

    21So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • Exod 25:3
    70%

    3This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

  • Prov 16:16
    69%

    16How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.

  • 1 Chr 28:14
    69%

    14He gave him the prescribed weight for all the gold items to be used in various types of service in the LORD’s temple, for all the silver items to be used in various types of service,

  • 1 Chr 28:17
    69%

    17for the pure gold used for the meat forks, bowls, and jars, for the small gold bowls, including the weight for each bowl, for the small silver bowls, including the weight for each bowl,

  • Ezek 28:4
    69%

    4By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself; you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

  • Exod 25:31
    69%

    31The Lampstand“You are to make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand is to be made of hammered metal; its base and its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms are to be from the same piece.

  • Ezek 5:4
    69%

    4Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

  • Prov 25:3
    69%

    3As the heaven is high and the earth is deep so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.