Jeremiah 6:29

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

The bellows blow, the lead is consumed from the fire, the refiner refines in vain; for the evil is not separated.

Cross References

Proverbs 17:3

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

Isaiah 49:4

And I said, I have labored in vain; I have spent My strength for nothing, and in vain; yet surely My judgment is with Jehovah, and My work with My God.

Jeremiah 15:19

So Jehovah says this: If you turn back, even I will bring you back; you shall stand before Me. And if you take the precious from the worthless, you shall be as My mouth. They may turn back to you, but do not turn back to them.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore, so says Jehovah of Hosts, Behold, I will refine them and test them. For what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?

Ezekiel 24:12

She is wearied with toil, and the increase of her scum did not go out, her rust will be in the fire.

Ezekiel 24:13

In your defilement is wickedness. Because I have cleansed you, yet you are not cleansed; you shall not be cleansed from your defilement any more until I have caused My fury to cease on you.

Hosea 11:7

And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. And they call him to the Most High; they would not at all exalt Him.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will test them as gold is tested. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, It is My people, and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

1 Peter 1:7

so that the testing of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, but being tested through fire, may be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved ones, do not be astonished at the fiery trial taking place among you for a test, as if a strange thing were happening to you;

Judges 17:4

And he returned the silver to his mother. And his mother took two hundred silver pieces and gave them to a refiner. And he made it a graven image, and a molten image. And it was in Micah’s house.