14 Bible Verses About Refined by Fire

I will bring this third through the fire; I will refine them as silver is refined and test them as one tests gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer. I will say, “This is my people,” and they will say, “The LORD is my God.”

He will sit like one who refines and purifies silver; he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they will belong to the LORD and bring offerings in righteousness.

Yet he knows the road I am on; when he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

See, I have put you through the refiner’s fire, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Silver is tried in the crucible and gold in the furnace, but it is the LORD who tests the heart.

For you have put us to the test, God; you have refined us the way silver is refined.

I will turn my hand against you; I will melt away your slag as with lye and clear out all your impure metal.

Many will be purified, made white and refined, but the wicked will go on doing evil. Not one of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will.

Blessed is anyone who endures through trial. When they have been proved genuine, they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

each builder’s work will come out into the open. The Day will make it plain, since that Day arrives in fire, and the fire itself will prove what kind of work each one has done.

I had heard of you by what my ears were told, but now my own eyes have seen you.

More than that, we boast even in our troubles, because we know that trouble leads to endurance, endurance to proven character, and proven character to hope. And hope does not leave us ashamed, for God has given us the Holy Spirit, and through the Spirit his love has flooded our hearts.

Our troubles are light and last only a moment, and they are bringing about for us an eternal glory, weighty beyond all measure.