Proverbs 26:23 Themes and Topics

You remove all the wicked of [the] earth [like] dross, therefore I love your testimonies. Verse Concepts

Remove the dross from silver, and it will become a vessel for the smith. Verse Concepts

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart. Verse Concepts

Your silver has become [as] dross; Your wine [is] diluted with waters. Verse Concepts

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them [are as] bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, [even] [as] silver dross, silver [dross] they became! Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because all of you have become [as] silver dross, therefore look! I [am] gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem,

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart. Verse Concepts

Choice silver is a tongue of righteousness, a heart of wickedness is {of little worth}. Verse Concepts

And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain. Now, look! You [are] to them like {a sensual song}, beautiful of voice and {played well on an instrument}, and they hear your words, {but they are not doing them}.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed. Verse Concepts

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

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart. Verse Concepts

"And why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I tell [you]? Verse Concepts

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

And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and God Most High their redeemer. But they enticed him with their mouth and lied to him with their tongue.

Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and came out from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh, and {invoke} the God of Israel, [but] not in truth and not in righteousness. Verse Concepts

So he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me. Verse Concepts

And I will bring the [remaining] third into the fire, and I will refine them like [one] refines silver, and I will test them like [one] tests gold. They will call my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'Yahweh [is] my God.'" Verse Concepts

He will sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the children of Levi, and he will refine them like gold and like silver, and they will present to Yahweh offerings in righteousness. Verse Concepts

A crucible [is] for the silver, and a furnace [is] for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts. Verse Concepts

Remove the dross from silver, and it will become a vessel for the smith. Verse Concepts

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart. Verse Concepts

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them [are as] bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, [even] [as] silver dross, silver [dross] they became! Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because all of you have become [as] silver dross, therefore look! I [am] gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem, like the gathering of silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin to the middle of a furnace to blow fire on it for melting. Thus I will gather in my anger and in my rage, and I will {deposit} you, and I will melt you. read more.
And I will gather you, and I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and [so] I will melt [you] in the midst of her. Thus you will be melted like [the] melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have poured out my rage on you.'"

[The] bellows are burned up, lead is consumed by fire. {In vain} {he keeps on refining}, but [the] wicked are not torn apart. {They are called} rejected silver, For Yahweh has rejected them."