Proverbs 26:23 Themes and Topics

All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies. Verse Concepts

Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel; Verse Concepts

Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water. Verse Concepts

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth. Verse Concepts

And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. Verse Concepts

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Verse Concepts

Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you? Verse Concepts

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. Verse Concepts

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer. But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right. Verse Concepts

And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; Verse Concepts

And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'" Verse Concepts

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD. Verse Concepts

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts. Verse Concepts

Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel; Verse Concepts

Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you. read more.
I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have poured out my wrath upon you."

The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed. Rejected silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them."