Jeremiah 6:29

The bellows blow fiercely to consume the lead with the fire. The assayer keeps on refining, but the impurities aren't separated out.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold but the LORD assays hearts.

Isaiah 49:4

"I said: "I've labored for nothing. I've exhausted my strength on futility and on emptiness.' Yet surely my recompense is with the LORD, and my reward is with my God.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore, this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Look, I'm about to refine and test them. Because they're my people, what else can I do?

Ezekiel 24:13

There is wickedness in your obscene conduct. Even though I've cleansed you, you uncleanness cannot be washed away. You cannot be cleansed again until my rage against you has subsided.'

Hosea 11:7

My people are determined to turn away from me; though they call to the Most High, no one is worshiping.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring that surviving third through, testing them as if through fire, purifying them like silver, assaying them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, "This is my people,' and they will say, "The LORD is my God.'"

Malachi 3:2-3

But who will survive the day when he comes? Or who can stand when he appears? Because he's like a refiner's fire and a launderer's soap,

1 Peter 1:7

so that your genuine faith, which is more valuable than gold that perishes when tested by fire, may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.

1 Peter 4:12

Dear friends, do not be surprised by the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

Bible References

The founder

Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore, this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Look, I'm about to refine and test them. Because they're my people, what else can I do?
Proverbs 17:3
The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold but the LORD assays hearts.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring that surviving third through, testing them as if through fire, purifying them like silver, assaying them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, "This is my people,' and they will say, "The LORD is my God.'"
Malachi 3:2
But who will survive the day when he comes? Or who can stand when he appears? Because he's like a refiner's fire and a launderer's soap,
1 Peter 1:7
so that your genuine faith, which is more valuable than gold that perishes when tested by fire, may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.
1 Peter 4:12
Dear friends, do not be surprised by the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

General references

Leviticus 14:43
"If the contagion returns and spreads throughout the house after the stones have been removed, after the house has been scraped out, and after it has been re-coated,
Isaiah 5:4
What more could I do in my vineyard, that I haven't already done? When I expected it to produce good grapes, why did it yield wild ones?
Ezekiel 22:24
"Son of Man, tell her, "You're a land that hasn't been purified, one that hasn't been rained on in the day of indignation.

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