Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions » Blessings in disguise
For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:
For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.
Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.
Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.
And he will say, I called out of straits to me to Jehovah, and he will answer me; from the belly of hades I cried for help, thou heardest my voice.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.
And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb.
Afflictions » Often blessings in disguise
For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:
For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.
Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.
Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.
And he will say, I called out of straits to me to Jehovah, and he will answer me; from the belly of hades I cried for help, thou heardest my voice.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.
And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb.
Afflictions » Promises concerning » Refining influence of
For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.
And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy:
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?
And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » The refining process
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
Answer promised » To prayer
If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
He shall call me and I will answer him: I am with him in straits; I will deliver him and honor him.
The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.
Then shalt thou call and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry for help, and he will say, Behold me. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the extending of the finger, and the word of vanity;
And it was before they shall call, I will answer; they yet speaking, and I will hear.
Call to me and I will answer thee, and I will announce to thee great and mighty things which thou knewest them not
And I say ' to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
If ye ask anything in my name, I will do.
And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.
Fire » As a purifier
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove.
The gathering silver and brass and iron and lead and alloy to the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it, to melt; so will I gather in mine anger and in my wrath, and I put down and melted you.
Every thing which shall come through fire ye shall make pass through fire, and it was cleansed: only with the water of uncleanness shall it be purified: and all which will not come through the fire ye shall make pass through the water.
And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller.
God's Promises » God's, characteristics of » Of answer to prayer
If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
He shall call me and I will answer him: I am with him in straits; I will deliver him and honor him.
The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.
Then shalt thou call and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry for help, and he will say, Behold me. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the extending of the finger, and the word of vanity;
And it was before they shall call, I will answer; they yet speaking, and I will hear.
Call to me and I will answer thee, and I will announce to thee great and mighty things which thou knewest them not
And I say ' to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
If ye ask anything in my name, I will do.
And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.
God's Promises » To the prayerful » Promises of answer
If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
He shall call me and I will answer him: I am with him in straits; I will deliver him and honor him.
The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.
Then shalt thou call and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry for help, and he will say, Behold me. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the extending of the finger, and the word of vanity;
And it was before they shall call, I will answer; they yet speaking, and I will hear.
Call to me and I will answer thee, and I will announce to thee great and mighty things which thou knewest them not
And I say ' to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
If ye ask anything in my name, I will do.
And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.
Gold » Refined
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.
If I set gold my hope, and said to gold, My trust;
The crucible for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man to the mouth praising him.
Gold » Refined and tried by fire
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going, and they wept: they shall go and shall seek Jehovah their God. To Zion shall they ask the way, thither their faces: Come ye, and we will join ourselves to Jehovah an eternal covenant; it shall not be forgotten. My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.
These twelve Jesus sent, having announced to them, saying, Go not in the way of the nations, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not. But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And going, proclaim, saying, That the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.
Wo to the shepherds destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture! says Jehovah. For this, thus said Jehovah God of Israel, against the shepherds feeding my people: Ye scattered my flock and ye will thrust them away, and ye reviewed them not: behold me reviewing over you the evil of your doings, says Jehovah. And I will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I thrust them away there, and I turned them back to their rests, and they were fruitful and multiplied. read more.
And I set up shepherds over them, and they fed them; and they shall no more fear, and they shall not be terrified, and they shall not be reviewed, says Jehovah.
And I set up shepherds over them, and they fed them; and they shall no more fear, and they shall not be terrified, and they shall not be reviewed, says Jehovah.
And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo! to the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves: shall not the shepherds feed the sheep? Ye will eat the fat, and ye will put on the wool, ye will sacrifice the fatlings: ye will not feed the sheep. read more.
Ye strengthened not the sickly, and the diseased ye healed not, and the broken ye bound not up, and the thrust away ye turned not back, and the lost ye sought not; and with force and with oppression ye ruled them. And they will be scattered from Without a shepherd: and they will be for consuming to all the beasts of the field, and they will be scattered. My sheep will wander upon all the mountains, and upon every high hill: and upon all the face of the earth my flock was scattered, and none searching and none seeking. For this, hear ye shepherds, the word of Jehovah: I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if not my sheep were for plunder and my sheep will be for consuming to all the beasts of the field from no shepherd; and the shepherds sought not my sheep, and the shepherds will feed themselves, and my sheep they fed not For this, hear ye shepherds, the word of Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me against the shepherds; and I sought my flock from their hand, and I caused them to cease from feeding the sheep: and the shepherds shall no more feed themselves; and I delivered my flock from their face, and they shall not be to them for consuming.
Ye strengthened not the sickly, and the diseased ye healed not, and the broken ye bound not up, and the thrust away ye turned not back, and the lost ye sought not; and with force and with oppression ye ruled them. And they will be scattered from Without a shepherd: and they will be for consuming to all the beasts of the field, and they will be scattered. My sheep will wander upon all the mountains, and upon every high hill: and upon all the face of the earth my flock was scattered, and none searching and none seeking. For this, hear ye shepherds, the word of Jehovah: I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if not my sheep were for plunder and my sheep will be for consuming to all the beasts of the field from no shepherd; and the shepherds sought not my sheep, and the shepherds will feed themselves, and my sheep they fed not For this, hear ye shepherds, the word of Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me against the shepherds; and I sought my flock from their hand, and I caused them to cease from feeding the sheep: and the shepherds shall no more feed themselves; and I delivered my flock from their face, and they shall not be to them for consuming.
O sword, be raised up against my shepherd, and against the man of my fellowship, says Jehovah of armies: strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered; and I turned back my hand upon the little ones. And it was in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off, they shall expire; and the third shall be left in it And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
Prayer » Examples of Prayers answered » Answer promised
If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
He shall call me and I will answer him: I am with him in straits; I will deliver him and honor him.
The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.
Then shalt thou call and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry for help, and he will say, Behold me. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the extending of the finger, and the word of vanity;
And it was before they shall call, I will answer; they yet speaking, and I will hear.
Call to me and I will answer thee, and I will announce to thee great and mighty things which thou knewest them not
And I say ' to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
If ye ask anything in my name, I will do.
And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.
Prayer » Examples of » Promises of answers to
If ye remain in me, and my words remain in you, ye shall ask whatever ye wish, and it shall be to you.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
He shall call me and I will answer him: I am with him in straits; I will deliver him and honor him.
The poor and the needy seeking water, and none; their tongue failing in thirst, I Jehovah will answer them; the God of Israel, I will not forsake them.
Then shalt thou call and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry for help, and he will say, Behold me. If thou shalt take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the extending of the finger, and the word of vanity;
And it was before they shall call, I will answer; they yet speaking, and I will hear.
Call to me and I will answer thee, and I will announce to thee great and mighty things which thou knewest them not
And I say ' to you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.
If ye ask anything in my name, I will do.
And whatever we ask, we receive of him, for we keep his commands, and do things pleasing before him.
Prayer » The promises of God encourage to
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And it was before they shall call, I will answer; they yet speaking, and I will hear.
Refining » Figurative » Of the corrective judgments of God
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy:
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?
And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller. And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
Refining » The lord refining
O sword, be raised up against my shepherd, and against the man of my fellowship, says Jehovah of armies: strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered; and I turned back my hand upon the little ones. And it was in all the land, says Jehovah, two parts in it shall be cut off, they shall expire; and the third shall be left in it And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
Behold me sending my messenger, and he looked upon the way before my face: and suddenly Jehovah whom ye seek shall come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in: behold him coming, said Jehovah of armies. And who enduring the day of his coming? and who standing in his being seen? for he is as the fire of the crucible, as the alkali of the fuller. And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
spiritual Refining » The refining influence afflictions
For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.
And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy:
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?
And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:
Silver » Symbolical
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.
This image, its head of good gold, the breasts and arms of silver, and the bowels and thighs of brass:
Son of man, the house of Israel became to me for dross: all they brass and alloy, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they were drosses of silver.
They called to them, Rejected silver, because Jehovah rejected them.
At that time were beaten small at once, the iron, the burnt clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, and they were as the chaff of the threshing-floor of summer; and the wind lifted them up and all place was not found for them: and the stone striking against the image was for a great rock, and filled all the earth.
The sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings: silver tried in the crucible of the earth, purified seven times.
The obtaining of wisdom how good above gold and the obtaining of understanding to be chosen above silver.
Silver » Refining of
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.
Take ye away the dross from the silver, and a vessel shall come forth for the goldsmith.
Silver dross covering over a pot-sherd, burning lips and an evil heart.
Son of man, the house of Israel became to me for dross: all they brass and alloy, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they were drosses of silver. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: because all of them were for drosses, for this, behold me gathering you into the midst of Jerusalem. The gathering silver and brass and iron and lead and alloy to the midst of the furnace to blow the fire upon it, to melt; so will I gather in mine anger and in my wrath, and I put down and melted you. read more.
And I gathered you and blew upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye were melted in her midst As silver being melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in her midst; And ye knew that I Jehovah poured out my wrath upon you.
And I gathered you and blew upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye were melted in her midst As silver being melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in her midst; And ye knew that I Jehovah poured out my wrath upon you.
The bellows were burnt from their fire, the founder melted the lead in vain, and the evil were not plucked up. They called to them, Rejected silver, because Jehovah rejected them.
Silver » Purified by fire
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.
Silver » Illustrative » Of saints purified by affliction
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.
Spiritual » Refining » The refining influence of afflictions
For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.
And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy:
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?
And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:
Temptation » A test
By faith Abraham had brought near Isaac, being tried: and he having received the promises brought near the only born,
And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.
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Thus in the chiefs of Babel interceding, sending to him to seek out the sign which was in the land, God left him, to try him, to know all in his heart
And it shall be after these words, and God tried Abraham, and he will say to him, Abraham: and he will say, Behold, here I. And he will say, Take now thy son, thine only, whom thou didst love, Isaak, and go by thyself to the land of Moriah; and carry him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I told thee. And Abraham will rise early in the morning, and will saddle his ass, and will take two of his boys with him, and Isaak his son, and he will cleave the wood for the burnt offering, and will rise up and go to the place God spake to him. read more.
In the third day, Abraham will lift up his eyes and will see the place from far And Abraham will say to his boys, Sit ye here in this place with the ass; I and the boy will go even there and worship, and will turn back to you. And Abraham will take the wood of the burnt offering, and put upon Isaak his son; and will take in his hand the fire and the knife, and they will go, they two together. And Isaak will say to Abraham his father, and he will say, My father: and he will say, Behold, me, my son: And he will say, Behold the fire and the wood, and where the sheep for a burnt offering? And Abraham will say, God will see to himself the sheep for a burnt-offering my son: and they will go, they two together. And they will come to the place which God said to him; and Abraham will build an altar there, and put in order the wood: and he will find Isaak his son, and put him upon the altar, upon the wood. And Abraham will stretch out the hand and will take the knife to slaughter his son. And the messenger of Jehovah will call to him out of the heavens, and will say, Abraham, Abraham. And he will say, Behold me. And he will say, Thou shalt not put forth thy hand upon the boy, and thou shalt do nothing to him; for now I know that thou feared God, and thou didst not spare thy son thine only, from me. And Abraham will lift up his eyes, and will see and behold a ram behind, being held in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham will come and take the ram and bring it for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham will call the name of that place, Jehovah will see: which shall be said to this day, Jehovah will see in the mountain
In the third day, Abraham will lift up his eyes and will see the place from far And Abraham will say to his boys, Sit ye here in this place with the ass; I and the boy will go even there and worship, and will turn back to you. And Abraham will take the wood of the burnt offering, and put upon Isaak his son; and will take in his hand the fire and the knife, and they will go, they two together. And Isaak will say to Abraham his father, and he will say, My father: and he will say, Behold, me, my son: And he will say, Behold the fire and the wood, and where the sheep for a burnt offering? And Abraham will say, God will see to himself the sheep for a burnt-offering my son: and they will go, they two together. And they will come to the place which God said to him; and Abraham will build an altar there, and put in order the wood: and he will find Isaak his son, and put him upon the altar, upon the wood. And Abraham will stretch out the hand and will take the knife to slaughter his son. And the messenger of Jehovah will call to him out of the heavens, and will say, Abraham, Abraham. And he will say, Behold me. And he will say, Thou shalt not put forth thy hand upon the boy, and thou shalt do nothing to him; for now I know that thou feared God, and thou didst not spare thy son thine only, from me. And Abraham will lift up his eyes, and will see and behold a ram behind, being held in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham will come and take the ram and bring it for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham will call the name of that place, Jehovah will see: which shall be said to this day, Jehovah will see in the mountain
And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not
When there shall arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he gave to thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come which he spake to thee, saying, We will go after other gods which we know not, and we will serve them, Thou shalt not hear to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah thy God tries you to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations: That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.
And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Didst thou set thy heart to my servant Job? for none like him in the earth; a man blameless and upright, fearing God and departing from evil. And the adversary will answer Yehovah and say, Did Job fear God gratuitously? Didst thou, not hedge about him and about his house, and about all that is to him from round about? Thou didst bless the work of his hands, and his possession spread abroad in the earth. read more.
But send forth now thy band and tough upon all which is to him, if he will not bless thee upon thy face. And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold, all that is to him in thy hand: only upon him thou shalt not send. forth thy hand. And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah. And the day will be and his sons and daughters will be eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born: And a messenger came to Job; and he will say, The oxen were ploughing, and the he asses were feeding upon their hands. And Sheba will fall and take them; they struck the young men by the month of the sword; and only shall escape, I alone, to announce to thee.. This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The fire of God. fell from the heavens, and it will burn upon the sheep and upon the young men, and it will devour them; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee. This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The Chaldeans set three heads, and they invaded upon the camels, and they will take them, and they struck the young men with the mouth of the sword; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee. This yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, Thy sons and thy daughters Were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born: And behold, a great wind came from beyond the desert., and it will touch upon the four corners of the house, and fall upon the young men, and they will die; and I shall escape, I only, to announce to thee. And Job will rise and rend his covering, and shave his head, and fall to the earth and worship. And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed. In all this Job sinned not, and gave not folly to God.
But send forth now thy band and tough upon all which is to him, if he will not bless thee upon thy face. And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold, all that is to him in thy hand: only upon him thou shalt not send. forth thy hand. And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah. And the day will be and his sons and daughters will be eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born: And a messenger came to Job; and he will say, The oxen were ploughing, and the he asses were feeding upon their hands. And Sheba will fall and take them; they struck the young men by the month of the sword; and only shall escape, I alone, to announce to thee.. This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The fire of God. fell from the heavens, and it will burn upon the sheep and upon the young men, and it will devour them; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee. This one yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, The Chaldeans set three heads, and they invaded upon the camels, and they will take them, and they struck the young men with the mouth of the sword; and I shall escape, only I alone, to announce to thee. This yet speaking, and this came, and he will say, Thy sons and thy daughters Were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the first-born: And behold, a great wind came from beyond the desert., and it will touch upon the four corners of the house, and fall upon the young men, and they will die; and I shall escape, I only, to announce to thee. And Job will rise and rend his covering, and shave his head, and fall to the earth and worship. And he will say, Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn back there: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah took; the name of Jehovah shall be blessed. In all this Job sinned not, and gave not folly to God.
And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Didst thou set thy heart to my servant Job, that none like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing God and departing from evil? And yet he holding fast upon his integrity, and thou wilt stimulate me to destroy him without cause. And the adversary will answer Jehovah and say, Skin for skin, and all which is to a man he will give for his soul. But send forth now thy hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh, if he will not bless thee to thy face. read more.
And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold him in thy hand, but watch his soul And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah, and he will strike Job with an evil burning sore, from the sole of his foot even to his crown. And he will take to him a pot sherd to scrape himself with it, and he will sit in the midst of the ashes. And his wife will say to him, Yet thou art holding fast upon thine integrity: praise God and die. And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.
And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold him in thy hand, but watch his soul And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah, and he will strike Job with an evil burning sore, from the sole of his foot even to his crown. And he will take to him a pot sherd to scrape himself with it, and he will sit in the midst of the ashes. And his wife will say to him, Yet thou art holding fast upon thine integrity: praise God and die. And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou didst set a heavy burden upon our loins. Thou didst cause men to ride upon our head; we went through fire and through water: and thou wilt bring us forth to abundance. read more.
I will go into thine house with 'burnt-offerings: I will repay to thee my vows,
I will go into thine house with 'burnt-offerings: I will repay to thee my vows,
And many shall be separated and become white, and be tried; and the unjust did evil: and all the unjust shall not understand; and the intelligent shall understand.
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And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
Trial » The lord trying
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold: and Jehovah tries hearts.
The heart is deceitful above all, and man himself, who shall know him? I Jehovah searching the heart, trying the reins, to give to each according to his way, according to the fruit of his doings.
And I knew, my God, that thou triest the heart, and from uprightness thou wilt delight. I in the uprightness of my heart gave willingly all these: and now thy people were found here; I saw with gladness to show themselves willing to thee.
Prove me, O Jehovah, and try me; refine my reins and my heart
Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins.
Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, in the heavens his throne: his eyes will behold, his eyelashes will try the sons of man. Jehovah will try the just one: and the unjust and him loving violence, his soul hated.
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For the present moment the lightness of our pressure works to us an eternal weight of glory, as eminence upon eminence;
Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:
For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.
Before I shall be humbled I go astray: and now I watched thy word.
Good to go to the house of mourning rather than to go to the house of drinking, in that it is the end of every man; and he living shall give to his heart.
And he will say, I called out of straits to me to Jehovah, and he will answer me; from the belly of hades I cried for help, thou heardest my voice.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.
And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb.
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For he knew the way with me,: he tried me.; I shall come forth as gold.
And I brought the third through fire, and I purified them as purifying silver, and I tried them as trying gold: he shall call on my name and I will answer him: I said, He is my people; and he shall say, Jehovah my God.
For thou didst try us, O God, thou didst prove us as purifying of silver.
And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy:
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me melting them, and I tried them; for how shall I do for the face of the daughter of my people?
And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: