Proverbs 26:23 Themes and Topics

You remove all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love your decrees. Verse Concepts

Purge the dross from the silver, and material for a vessel comes forth for the silversmith. Verse Concepts

A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are. Verse Concepts

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

"Son of Man, Israel has become like dross to me. All of them are like remnants of bronze, tin, iron, and lead in a furnace the dross left over from smelting silver. Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says, "Because all of you have become dross, watch out! I'm going to gather all of you at the center of Jerusalem,

A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are. Verse Concepts

What the righteous person says is like precious silver; the thoughts of the wicked are compared to small things. Verse Concepts

Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words and then they don't do what you say because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests. As far as they are concerned, you sing romantic songs with a beautiful voice and play a musical instrument well. They'll listen to what you have to say, but they won't put it into practice!

They claim to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good. Verse Concepts

"Not everyone who keeps saying to me, "Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom from heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven. Verse Concepts

A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are. Verse Concepts

"Why do you keep calling me "Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you? Verse Concepts

Little children, we must stop expressing love merely by our words and manner of speech; we must love also in action and in truth. Verse Concepts

Then they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their deliverer. But they deceived him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

"Listen to this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and who have come forth from Judah's loins; you who swear oaths in the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel but not in truth, nor in good faith. Verse Concepts

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Verse Concepts

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.'" Verse Concepts

he will sit refining and purifying silver, purifying the descendants of Levi, refining them like gold and silver. Then they'll bring a righteous offering to the LORD. Verse Concepts

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

Purge the dross from the silver, and material for a vessel comes forth for the silversmith. Verse Concepts

A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are. Verse Concepts

"Son of Man, Israel has become like dross to me. All of them are like remnants of bronze, tin, iron, and lead in a furnace the dross left over from smelting silver. Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says, "Because all of you have become dross, watch out! I'm going to gather all of you at the center of Jerusalem, just like a smelter gathers all the silver, bronze, lead, and tin to the center of a furnace and injects fire in order to melt it, I'm going to gather you in my anger and rage, make you settle down and then I'm going to melt you down. read more.
Indeed, I'm going to gather you together and exhale the fire of my fury, and then you'll be melted from the inside out like melting silver at the center of a furnace. When you've been melted from the center out, then you'll know that I am the LORD. I'll pour out my anger on you.'"

The bellows blow fiercely to consume the lead with the fire. The assayer keeps on refining, but the impurities aren't separated out. They're called reject silver, because the LORD has rejected them.