14 Bible Verses about Things Like Gold

More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.

Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.

Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;

His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.

And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.

And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.

For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.