Proverbs 26:23 Themes and Topics

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules. Verse Concepts

Remove the dross from the silver, and material for the silversmith will emerge; Verse Concepts

Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water. Verse Concepts

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver. Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: 'Because all of you have become slag, look out! -- I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem.

Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

What the righteous say is like the best silver, but what the wicked think is of little value. Verse Concepts

They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage. Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them.

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed. Verse Concepts

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

Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

"Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and don't 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

They remembered that God was their protector, and that the sovereign God was their deliverer. But they deceived him with their words, and lied to him.

Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name 'Israel,' and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the Lord, and invoke the God of Israel -- but not in an honest and just manner. Verse Concepts

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 from me. Verse Concepts

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, 'These are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'" Verse Concepts

He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the Lord a proper offering. Verse Concepts

The crucible is for refining silver and the furnace is for gold, likewise the Lord tests hearts. Verse Concepts

Remove the dross from the silver, and material for the silversmith will emerge; Verse Concepts

Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver. Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: 'Because all of you have become slag, look out! -- I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem. As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you. read more.
I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on you.'"

The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged. They are regarded as 'rejected silver' because the Lord rejects them."