Jeremiah 6:29

Modern English Version

The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melts in vain, for the wicked are not plucked away.

Cross References

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord is the tester of the heart.

Isaiah 49:4

Then I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity, yet surely the justice due to me is with the Lord, and my reward with my God.”

Jeremiah 15:19

Therefore thus says the Lord: If you return, then I will bring you back, and you shall stand before Me; and if you take out the precious from the worthless, you will be My spokesman. Let them return to you, but do not return to them.

Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: Behold, I will refine them and assay them; for what else shall I do for the daughter of My people?

Ezekiel 24:12

She has wearied Me with toil, and her great rust has not gone from her. Let her rust be in the fire.

Ezekiel 24:13

In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I would have purged you, yet you are not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness anymore until I have caused My fury to rest on you.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they called to the Most High, none at all exalt Him.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring this one-third left into the fire, and will refine them as the refinement of silver, and will test them as the testing of gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, “They are My people”; and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”

1 Peter 1:7

in order that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tried by fire, may be found to result in praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 4:12

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though some strange thing happened to you.

Judges 17:4

When he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith to make a carved idol and a metal idol. And they were put in the house of Micah.