Psalms 119:119
All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.
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Psalms 119:119
All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.
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Psalms 119:118
You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.
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Ezekiel 22:18
Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
Ezekiel 22:19
For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:20
As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.
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Isaiah 1:25
And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;
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Jeremiah 6:28
All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.
Jeremiah 6:29
The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.
Jeremiah 6:30
They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
Proverbs 25:4
Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.
Isaiah 1:22
Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
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Malachi 3:2
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
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Malachi 3:3
He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
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Malachi 3:18
Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
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