1 Peter 1:7
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
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1 Peter 1:7
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
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Exodus 15:25
Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.
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Exodus 16:4
Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
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Numbers 31:23
everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
Matthew 3:11
“I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 3:14
If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
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Job 1:12
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.
Job 1:22
In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
Job 2:5
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
Job 2:6
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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Psalms 12:6
Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
Ezekiel 22:18
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the middle of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
Ezekiel 22:19
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the middle of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:21
Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.
Ezekiel 22:22
As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’ ”
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat; and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
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Psalms 112:9
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
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Psalms 139:1
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
Psalms 139:23
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Jeremiah 17:10
“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
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Acts 8:20
But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
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2 Corinthians 2:9
For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
Philippians 2:22
But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
1 Timothy 3:10
Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
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2 Timothy 2:20
Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor and some for dishonor.
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Isaiah 24:15
Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
John 16:22
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Acts 5:41
They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
Romans 8:17
and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
2 Thessalonians 1:12
that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
1 Peter 4:1
Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
1 Peter 4:16
But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
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1 Peter 1:10
Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
1 Peter 1:11
searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them pointed to when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow them.
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1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
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1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
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Luke 19:17
“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
John 12:43
for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
Romans 8:19
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
2 Corinthians 1:5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:8
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
Colossians 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
2 Peter 1:11
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:1
See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
Jude 1:24
Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
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