Proverbs 27:21
A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.
Proverbs 17:3
A refining pot is for silver, and a furnace for gold, And the trier of hearts is Jehovah.
1 Samuel 18:7-8
and the women answer -- those playing, and say, 'Saul hath smitten among his thousands, And David among his myriads.'
1 Samuel 18:15-16
and Saul seeth that he is acting very wisely, and is afraid of him,
1 Samuel 18:30
And the princes of the Philistines come out, and it cometh to pass from the time of their coming out, David hath acted more wisely than any of the servants of Saul, and his name is very precious.
2 Samuel 14:25
And like Absalom there was no man so fair in all Israel, to praise greatly; from the sole of his foot even unto his crown there was no blemish in him;
2 Samuel 15:6-12
and Absalom doth according to this thing to all Israel who come in for judgment unto the king, and Absalom stealeth the heart of the men of Israel.
Psalm 12:6
Sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold.
Psalm 66:10
For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.
Zechariah 13:9
And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'
Malachi 3:3
And he hath sat, a refiner and purifier of silver, And he hath purified the sons of Levi, And hath refined them as gold and as silver, And they have been to Jehovah bringing nigh a present in righteousness.
1 Peter 1:7
that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,