15 Bible Verses about Gold As A Valuable And Precious Metal

Genesis 2:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.

1 Kings 10:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,

Exodus 25:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it.

Revelation 21:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

Revelation 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Daniel 2:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze,

Isaiah 13:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

Proverbs 8:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.

Psalm 19:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Job 28:15-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price. It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire. Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls. The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.

2 Chronicles 9:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,

1 Chronicles 29:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble.

Exodus 3:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

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