Iron Sharpens Iron

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring. — read the full passage →

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.

He brought out the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?

restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”

David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”

therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion. — read the full passage →

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.

but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle; — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; — read the full passage →

yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

They said to the messengers who came, “Thus you shall tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad. — read the full passage →

The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

They said to Joshua, “Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us.”

Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. — read the full passage →

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the brass for the things of brass, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots;as I also have received of my Father:

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me;

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

The same was in the beginning with God.

In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them, — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.

Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.

Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.

You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.

“Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.