Proverbs 25:4

New International Version

Remove the dross from the silver, and a silversmith can produce a vessel;

Cross References

Psalm 66:10

For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.

Proverbs 17:3

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

Proverbs 25:3

As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

Proverbs 26:23

Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.

Ezekiel 22:18

“Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver.

1 Peter 1:7

These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.