7 Bible Verses about Things Improved

The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it.

For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD.

"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."

And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: "Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,

"'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.