Proverbs 26:23 Themes and Topics

You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies. Verse Concepts

Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner; Verse Concepts

Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

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

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the 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 silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

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

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work. Verse Concepts

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Verse Concepts

Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

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

Little children, let us not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. Verse Concepts

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer. But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

"Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness Verse Concepts

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

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'" Verse Concepts

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

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts. Verse Concepts

Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner; Verse Concepts

Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. Verse Concepts

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the 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 they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you. read more.
Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst. As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you will be melted in its midst; and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my wrath on you.'"

The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away. Men will call them 'rejected silver,' because the LORD has rejected them."