Isaiah 1:25

Good News Translation

I will take action against you. I will purify you the way metal is refined, and will remove all your impurity.

Cross References

Psalm 119:119

You treat all the wicked like rubbish, and so I love your instructions.

Isaiah 1:22

Jerusalem, you were once like silver, but now you are worthless; you were like good wine, but now you are only water.

Isaiah 27:9

But Israel's sins will be forgiven only when the stones of pagan altars are ground up like chalk, and no more incense altars or symbols of the goddess Asherah are left.

Isaiah 4:4

By his power the Lord will judge and purify the nation and wash away the guilt of Jerusalem and the blood that has been shed there.

Jeremiah 6:29

The furnace burns fiercely, but the waste metals do not melt and run off. It is useless to go on refining my people, because those who are evil are not taken away.

Jeremiah 9:7

Because of this the Lord Almighty says, “I will refine my people like metal and put them to the test. My people have done evil— what else can I do with them?

Ezekiel 20:38

I will take away from among you those who are rebellious and sinful. I will take them out of the lands where they are living now, but I will not let them return to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 22:19

So now I, the Sovereign Lord, am telling them that they are just as useless as that. I will bring them all together in Jerusalem

Ezekiel 22:20

in the same way that the ore of silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin is put in a refining furnace. My anger and rage will melt them the way fire melts ore.

Ezekiel 22:22

They will be melted in Jerusalem the way silver is melted in a furnace, and then they will know that they are feeling the anger of the Lord.”

Zephaniah 3:11

At that time you, my people, will no longer need to be ashamed that you rebelled against me. I will remove everyone who is proud and arrogant, and you will never again rebel against me on my sacred hill.

Malachi 3:3

He will come to judge like one who refines and purifies silver. As a metalworker refines silver and gold, so the Lord's messenger will purify the priests, so that they will bring to the Lord the right kind of offerings.

Matthew 3:12

He has his winnowing shovel with him to thresh out all the grain. He will gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out.”

Deuteronomy 32:43

“Nations, you must praise the Lord's people— he punishes all who kill them. He takes revenge on his enemies and forgives the sins of his people.”

Revelation 3:19

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.