Proverbs 26:23 Themes and Topics

All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word. Verse Concepts

Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker. Verse Concepts

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste. Verse Concepts

Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water. Verse Concepts

Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste. For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste. Verse Concepts

The tongue of the upright man is like tested silver: the heart of the evil-doer is of little value. Verse Concepts

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves. And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.

They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work. Verse Concepts

Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven. Verse Concepts

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste. Verse Concepts

Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Verse Concepts

My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith. Verse Concepts

In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour. But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith. Verse Concepts

And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Verse Concepts

And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God. Verse Concepts

He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness. Verse Concepts

The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts. Verse Concepts

Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker. Verse Concepts

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste. Verse Concepts

Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste. For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem. As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft. read more.
Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it. As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.

The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away. They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.