aPs. 81:14; Amos 1:8; [ch. 5:25]
b[Ezek. 22:20; Mal. 3:3]
c[1 Pet. 1:7]
d[Deut. 4:20; Ezek. 22:18, 20, 22]
fJames 1:3
gJob 23:10; Ps. 66:10; Prov. 17:3; Isa. 48:10
h1 Cor. 3:13
iRom. 2:7, 10; 1 Cor. 4:5; [2 Thess. 1:7-12]

Isaiah 1:25

25 aI will turn my hand against you
and will smelt away your bdross as with lye
and remove all your alloy.

Isaiah 48:10

10Behold, I have refined you, cbut not as silver;
dI have tried ▼
▼Or  I have chosen
 you in the furnace of affliction.

1 Peter 1:7

7so that fthe tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes gthough it is tested by hfire—may be found to result in ipraise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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