7 Bible Verses about Things Improved

The words and promises of the Lord are pure words,
Like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times.

Your word is very pure (refined);
Therefore Your servant loves it.

For You have tested us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi [the priests], and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord [grain] offerings in righteousness.

“The bricks have fallen down,
But we will rebuild [all the better] with ashlar (hewed stones);
The sycamores have been cut down,
But we will replace them with [expensive] cedars.”

After Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began the complaint [against him], saying to the governor:

“Since through you we have attained great peace, and since by your foresight reforms are being carried out for this nation,

‘I know your deeds, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your last deeds are more numerous and greater than the first.