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Proverbs 17:3
The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the LORD tests hearts.
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Psalms 66:10
For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.
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1 Peter 4 12
Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.
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Job 23:10
But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.
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Hebrews 12:10-11
For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it.
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Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore the LORD who rules over all says,“ I will now purify them in the fires of affliction and test them. The wickedness of my dear people has left me no choice. What else can I do?
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1 Peter 1 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.
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Deuteronomy 4:20
You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron- smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.
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Malachi 3:2-3
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.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.
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Ezekiel 22:18-22
“ 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.Therefore 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.As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you.I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.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 anger on you.’”
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Revelation 3:19
All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
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Zechariah 13:8-9
It will happen in all the land, says the LORD, that two-thirds of the people in it will be cut off and die, but one-third will be left in it.Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say,‘ These are my people,’ and they will say,‘ The LORD is my God.’”
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Isaiah 1:25-26
I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.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.’”
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1 Kings 8 51
After all, they are your people and your special possession whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.
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Ezekiel 20:38
I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
