Isaiah 48:10

Catholic Public Domain Version

Behold, I have refined you, but not like silver. I have chosen you for the furnace of poverty.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:51

For they are your people and your inheritance, whom you have led away from the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.

Job 23:10

Truly, he knows my way and has tested me like gold that passes through fire.

Job 28:1

Silver has its fissures where it is first found, and gold has a place where it is melted.

Proverbs 17:3

Just as silver is tested by fire, and gold is tested in the furnace, so also does the Lord test hearts.

Isaiah 27:9

Therefore, concerning this, the iniquity of the house of Jacob will be forgiven. And this is the reward of all: that their sin be taken away, when he will have made all the stones of the altar to be like crushed cinders. For the sacred groves and the shrines shall not stand.

Jeremiah 11:4

which I commanded to your fathers in the day when I led them away from the land of Egypt, away from the iron furnace, saying: Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you, and then you will be my people and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 9:7

Because of this, thus says the Lord of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them, and I will test them. For what else can I do before the face of the daughter of my people?

Ezekiel 20:38

And I will select, from among you, the transgressors and the impious. And I will lead them away from the land of their sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord has taken you up, and led you away from the iron furnaces of Egypt, in order to have a people of inheritance, just as it is to the present day.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the testing of your faith, which is much more precious than gold tested by fire, may be found in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:12

Most beloved, do not choose to sojourn in the passion which is a temptation to you, as if something new might happen to you.

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I rebuke and chastise. Therefore, be zealous and do penance.