100 Bible Verses about Refiners Fireverses

Malachi 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.

Zechariah 13:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Isaiah 48:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 66:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.

Isaiah 1:25 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.

1 Peter 1:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Malachi 3:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.

Malachi 3:2-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.

Proverbs 17:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.

Job 23:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

Jeremiah 6:29 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.

1 Peter 4:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Jeremiah 9:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?

Psalm 66:10-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs; you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

1 Peter 1:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

1 Corinthians 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

Malachi 3:1-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years. “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. ...

Proverbs 25:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;

1 Chronicles 28:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 3:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Matthew 3:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Isaiah 43:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

1 Chronicles 29:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

3,000 talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and 7,000 talents of refined silver, for overlaying the walls of the house,

James 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

Hebrews 12:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For our God is a consuming fire.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Acts 2:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

John 15:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...

Luke 12:49 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!

Luke 9:54 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

Luke 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Daniel 12:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Daniel 11:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.

Ezekiel 22:18-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you. I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have poured out my wrath upon you.”

Isaiah 33:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”

Isaiah 25:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

Isaiah 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.

Numbers 31:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless, it shall also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.

Leviticus 10:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

Exodus 40:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.

Exodus 14:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,

Exodus 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.

Genesis 19:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Genesis 15:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

Revelation 20:14-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

1 Peter 1:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 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.

Mark 9:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

Malachi 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.

Malachi 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.

Zechariah 13:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the whole land, declares the Lord, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive. And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Ezekiel 22:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.

Ezekiel 22:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.

Jeremiah 23:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Jeremiah 20:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Psalm 18:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Psalm 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

2 Kings 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2 Kings 1:10-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king's order, ‘Come down quickly!’” But Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight. Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in your sight.”

Numbers 26:61 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord.

Numbers 16:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.

Numbers 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

Numbers 3:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.

Leviticus 6:12-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

Exodus 14:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic,

Revelation 20:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,

Revelation 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

Revelation 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

Revelation 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Jude 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

James 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

James 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not quench the Spirit.

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. ...

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

1 Corinthians 3:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

1 Corinthians 3:11-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 8:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Acts 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.

Acts 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

John 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.

John 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 15:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.