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

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  1. 6.29 Cn: Heb lead from their fire

Suffering as a Christian

12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

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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 washers’ soap;(A) he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness.[a](B)

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  1. 3.3 Or right offerings to the Lord

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

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My people are bent on turning away from me.
    To the Most High they call,
    but he does not raise them up at all.[a](A)

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  1. 11.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

13 Yet when I cleansed you in your filthy lewdness,
    you did not become clean from your filth;
you shall not again be cleansed
    until I have satisfied my fury upon you.(A)

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Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
I will now refine and test them,
    for what else can I do with the daughter of my people?(A)

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But I said, “I have labored in vain;
    I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my cause is with the Lord
    and my reward with my God.”(A)

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The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold,
    but the Lord tests the heart.(A)

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so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.(A)

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