But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: