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Isaiah 1:22
Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

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Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

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Jeremiah 6:27
I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.

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.

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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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.

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Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

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2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

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Proverbs 25:4
Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

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.

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