14 Bible Verses about Things Like Silver
Most Relevant Verses
If you seek skillful and godly wisdom as you would silver
And search for her as you would hidden treasures;
The words and promises of the Lord are pure words,
Like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times.
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold!
And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver.
“Take my instruction rather than [seeking] silver,
And take knowledge rather than choicest gold,
The tongue of the righteous is like precious silver (greatly valued);
The heart of the wicked is worth little.
“Indeed, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested and chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
As silver is melted in the furnace, so will you be melted in the midst of it; and you will know [without any doubt] that I the Lord have poured out My wrath on you [O Israel].’”
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi [the priests], and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord [grain] offerings in righteousness.
“And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will listen and answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Your silver has turned to lead,
Your wine is diluted with water.
They call them rejected silver [only dross, without value],
Because the Lord has rejected them.
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross (metallic waste) to Me. All of them are (useless) bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Earnestly remember your Creator before the silver cord [of life] is broken, or the golden bowl is crushed, or the pitcher at the fountain is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;