14 Bible Verses about Things Like Gold

They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.

For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold.

Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.

Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.

before the silver cord is removed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the well, or the water wheel is broken at the cistern --

His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

(Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold -- Alas! -- but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.

(Alef)Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner.

Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lord's hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. So they have all gone mad.

Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men's faces.

I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, 'These are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'"

But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.