Proverbs 17:3

Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

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Genesis 17:4
“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Isaiah 40:19
A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.

Isaiah 46:9
Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.

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Genesis 44:4
When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?

Job 31:6
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

Psalms 7:4
if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

Psalms 55:20
He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

Psalms 109:5
They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Jeremiah 18:20
Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

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Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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Exodus 15:26
He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

2 Samuel 24:1
Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

Job 5:7
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

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Numbers 27:16
“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

Jeremiah 32:19
great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

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Judges 3:4
They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

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1 Kings 7:12
The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

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2 Chronicles 6:30
then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men),

Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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Job 28:1
“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

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Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

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Proverbs 17:5
Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Luke 12:21
So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

1 Timothy 6:18
that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

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Isaiah 1:27
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.

Luke 3:16
John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire.

Romans 8:29
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Ephesians 5:26
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Ephesians 5:27
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.

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.

2 Timothy 2:21
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

1 Peter 5:10
But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

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Isaiah 1:22
Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

Jeremiah 6:28
They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.

Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

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Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

Ezekiel 20:38
I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Zechariah 13:8
It shall happen that in all the land,” says Yahweh, “two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.

Malachi 3:4
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh as in the days of old and as in ancient years.

Malachi 4:1
“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.

Malachi 4:3
You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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Psalms 66:12
You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

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 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 5:11
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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.

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 5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

Romans 5:4
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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.

Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

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John 11:5
Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

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John 11:6
When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

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Matthew 6:8
Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.

Acts 15:8
God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

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