Proverbs 26:23 Themes and Topics

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross; Therefore I love your law. Verse Concepts

Take away the dross from the silver and it will go to the refiner. Verse Concepts

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken pottery covered with silver dross. Verse Concepts

Your silver is not pure. Your beer is watered down. Verse Concepts

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver. Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: 'I am going to gather you into Jerusalem. This is because all of you have become dross (impure) (worthless).

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken pottery covered with silver dross. Verse Concepts

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

Then they come to you, as if they are still my people, and they sit down in front of you. They listen to what you say, but they do not do it. They say that they love me, but in their hearts they chase dishonest profits. To them you are nothing more than a singer with a beautiful voice who sings love songs or a musician who plays an instrument. They listen to your words, but they do not do them.

They profess that they know God; but deny him by their works! They are detestable, disobedient, and not approved for any good work. Verse Concepts

Not everyone who calls me Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. He who does the will of my Father in heaven will enter. Verse Concepts

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken pottery covered with silver dross. Verse Concepts

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

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

They remembered that God was their rock, that the Most High was their defender. They flattered him with their mouths and lied to him with their tongues.

Listen to this, people of Israel, you that are descended from Judah. You swear by the name of Jehovah and claim to worship the God of Israel. However you do not mean a word you say. Verse Concepts

He told them: Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites. It is written: 'This people honor me with their lips but their heart is far from me. Verse Concepts

I will bring the third part into the fire. I will refine them, as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: 'It is my people!' They will say: 'Jehovah is my God!' Verse Concepts

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

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold but Jehovah proves the heart. Verse Concepts

Take away the dross from the silver and it will go to the refiner. Verse Concepts

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken pottery covered with silver dross. Verse Concepts

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver. Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: 'I am going to gather you into Jerusalem. This is because all of you have become dross (impure) (worthless). As they gather silver and copper and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath and I will lay you there and melt (liquefy) you. read more.
I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath. You will be melted in the midst of it. As silver is melted in the furnace, you will be melted in the midst of her. You will know that I, Jehovah, have poured out my wrath on you.'

The bellows blow fiercely and the fire consumes the lead. The refining goes on in vain, but the wicked are not separated. They call them rejected silver, for Jehovah has rejected them.