14 Bible Verses about Things Like Gold

More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone.

Receive my doctrine therefore, and not silver: and my knowledge, more than fine gold.

To have wisdom in possession is better than gold; and to get understanding is more worth than silver.

The correction of the wise is, to an obedient ear, a golden chain and a Jewel of gold.

Before the silver lace be taken away, and or the golden band be broken; or the pot be broken at the well, and the wheel upon the cistern;

His legs are as the pillars of Marble, set upon sockets of gold; His face is as Lebanon, and as the beauty of the Cedar trees.

{Beth} The children of Zion that were always in honour, and clothed with the most precious gold: how are they now become like the earthen vessels which be made with the potter's hand?

{Aleph} O how is the gold become so dim? How is the goodly colour of it so sore changed? And the stones of the sanctuary thus scattered in the corner of every street?

"Babylon hath been in the LORD's hand a golden cup, that maketh all lands drunken. Of her wine have all people drunken, therefore are they out of their wits.

And the similitude of the locusts was like unto horses prepared unto battle, and on their heads were as it were crowns, like unto gold: and their faces were as it had been the faces of men.

I will make a man dearer than fine gold, and a man to be more worth than a golden wedge of Ophir.

And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"

But as for my way, he knoweth it: and tryeth me as the gold in the fire.