Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=16184678'>posted</a> on 09/28/2012:
Will, what's good is gold if it's not purified by burning fire.
Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10
For you, O God, tested us; you refined us like silver. Psalms 66:10
Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says: "See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people? Jeremiah 9:7
This third I will bring into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. 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.'" Zecharia 13:10