Proverbs 8:19

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

No mention will be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it, nor will it be valued with pure gold.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—