Proverbs 27:21

Proverbs 27:21
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

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Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

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1 Samuel 18:7
The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

1 Samuel 18:8
Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have credited David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

1 Samuel 18:15
When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.

1 Samuel 18:16
But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

1 Samuel 18:30
Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

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1 Samuel 25:33
Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 17:10
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

Proverbs 27:22
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

Proverbs 28:23
One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

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1 Samuel 29:9
Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

2 Samuel 14:17
Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

2 Samuel 14:20
Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

2 Samuel 19:27
He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.

Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

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2 Samuel 14:25
Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 15:7
At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:8
For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”

2 Samuel 15:9
The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:10
But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’ ”

2 Samuel 15:11
Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.

2 Samuel 15:12
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.

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

Proverbs 25:25
Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

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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 19:3
The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

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Proverbs 27:1
Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

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Proverbs 27:19
Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

Proverbs 27:20
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

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

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Mark 14:4
But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?

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Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Isaiah 1:25
I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.

1 Corinthians 3:13
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

Revelation 2:23
I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

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2 Corinthians 6:8
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,

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Galatians 6:4
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

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2 Peter 3:12
looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

Revelation 18:9
The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

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