Isaiah 48:10

God's Word

I have refined you, but not like silver. I have tested you in the furnace of suffering.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:51

because they are your own people whom you brought out of Egypt from the middle of an iron smelter.

Job 23:10

⌞I can’t find him⌟ because he knows the road I take. When he tests me, I’ll come out as pure as gold.

Job 28:1

“There is a place where silver is mined and a place where gold is refined.

Psalm 66:10

You have tested us, O God. You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for refining silver and the smelter for gold, but the one who purifies hearts ⌞by fire⌟ is the Lord.

Isaiah 27:9

In this way the wrongdoings of the descendants of Jacob are covered up. This is the way they will turn from their sins— when they turn all the altar stones into powdered chalk and no poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah or incense altars are left standing.

Jeremiah 11:4

I made this promise to your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, which was an iron smelter. I said, “Obey me, and do everything that I have told you to do. Then you will be my people, and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 9:7

This is what the Lord of Armies says: I will now refine them with fire and test them. What else can I do for my dear people?

Ezekiel 20:38

I will get rid of rebels and those who do wrong against me. I will bring you out of the land where you are living. You will never enter Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But you are the people the Lord brought out of Egypt, the iron smelter, in order to make you his own people as you still are today.

1 Peter 1:7

The purpose of these troubles is to test your faith as fire tests how genuine gold is. Your faith is more precious than gold, and by passing the test, it gives praise, glory, and honor to God. This will happen when Jesus Christ appears again.

1 Peter 4:12

Dear friends, don’t be surprised by the fiery troubles that are coming in order to test you. Don’t feel as though something strange is happening to you,

Revelation 3:19

I correct and discipline everyone I love. Take this seriously, and change the way you think and act.