Isaiah 48:10

A Conservative Version

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Cross References

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, ye should not be surprised at the fieriness in you, which occurs for a trial to you, like a strange thing happening to you.

Proverbs 17:3

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but LORD tries the hearts.

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalm 66:10

For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them, for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

Ezekiel 20:38

And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who transgress against me. I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

1 Kings 8:51

(for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be forgiven. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images s

Jeremiah 11:4

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you, so ye shall be my people, and I will b

Job 28:1

Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.