The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.
Luke 6:26 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to (alas for) you when everyone speaks fairly and handsomely of you and praises you, for even so their forefathers did to the false prophets. American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets. Common English Bible How terrible for you when all speak well of you. Their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you when men will have blessed you. For these same things their fathers did to the false prophets. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets. |
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.
who tell the seers, *Don't see!* and to the prophets, *Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the Kohanim bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: *I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;* he would be the prophet of this people.
*Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.