Because of this, the end of this world will be like how the tares are gathered and burned in the fire. All things offensive and those who commit sin will be gathered out of the kingdom by the Son of Man’s angels, who will then toss them into a fiery furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Jesus is often compared to fire in the Bible: “I have come to set the earth on fire” (Luke 12:49). He also said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). Jesus came to give us new life here on earth as well as in heaven. He came so that we could be transformed by His love and forgiveness into people who reflect His glory and goodness in every way.
From literal the fire of God’s wrath and destruction, to the symbolic imagery of vision, baptism, and judgment, fire is one of the most powerful themes in the Bible.
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bible verses about fire that refines
Zechariah 13:9 ESV / 1,365 helpful votes
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
1 Peter 1:7 ESV / 1,353 helpful votes
So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 48:10 ESV / 1,230 helpful votes
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
Malachi 3:3 ESV / 1,168 helpful votes
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
Job 23:10 ESV / 986 helpful votes
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
Proverbs 17:3 ESV / 954 helpful votes
The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.
Psalm 66:10 ESV / 920 helpful votes
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
Malachi 3:1-18 ESV / 725 helpful votes
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. 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 fullers’ soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years. “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. …
1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 709 helpful votes
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
1 Peter 1:6 ESV / 640 helpful votes
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
Psalm 66:10-12 ESV / 614 helpful votes
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs; you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.
Isaiah 1:25 ESV / 589 helpful votes
I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
Malachi 3:2-3 ESV / 579 helpful votes
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 fullers’ soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
Revelation 3:18 ESV / 453 helpful votes
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
Jeremiah 9:7 ESV / 439 helpful votes
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
1 Peter 4:12 ESV / 419 helpful votes
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
1 Corinthians 3:13 ESV / 415 helpful votes
Each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 398 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Malachi 3:2 ESV / 395 helpful votes
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 fullers’ soap.
1 Peter 4:12-13 ESV / 387 helpful votes
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
John 15:1-27 ESV / 349 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. …
Matthew 3:10-11 ESV / 342 helpful votes
Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Jeremiah 6:29 ESV / 322 helpful votes
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.
Proverbs 25:4 ESV / 317 helpful votes
Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;
Romans 12:1 ESV / 307 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Daniel 11:35 ESV / 306 helpful votes
And some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.
Daniel 12:10 ESV / 302 helpful votes
Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
Titus 2:14 ESV / 290 helpful votes
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Exodus 3:2 ESV / 287 helpful votes
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
Genesis 19:24 ESV / 284 helpful votes
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
James 1:12 ESV / 283 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 283 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Bible Verses about Natural Disasters
Mark 13:7-9 ESV / 407 helpful votes
And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains. “But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.
Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 325 helpful votes
I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Matthew 24:7 ESV / 236 helpful votes
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Luke 21:11 ESV / 195 helpful votes
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Luke 13:1-5 ESV / 167 helpful votes
There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
Luke 21:25 ESV / 162 helpful votes
“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
2 Chronicles 7:13-14 ESV / 142 helpful votes
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
2 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 140 helpful votes
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Romans 12:12 ESV / 138 helpful votes
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
John 16:33 ESV / 120 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Isaiah 54:11 ESV / 112 helpful votes
“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Psalm 18:6-7 ESV / 94 helpful votes
In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 84 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Job 1:8-22 ESV / 82 helpful votes
And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. …
Romans 8:19-21 ESV / 69 helpful votes
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Zephaniah 1:2-3 ESV / 64 helpful votes
“I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord. “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the rubble with the wicked. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.
Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 62 helpful votes
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Genesis 6:6-7 ESV / 58 helpful votes
And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Haggai 1:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes
You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.
Revelation 16:18 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.
Nahum 1:1-15 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh. The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers. The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it. …
Bible Verses about Firmament
Genesis 1:6 ESV / 49 helpful votes
And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
Psalm 19:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Genesis 1:6-8 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 1:14 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years,
Job 37:18 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?
Genesis 1:20 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”
Daniel 12:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 30 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …
Psalm 104:5 ESV / 29 helpful votes
He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
Psalm 148:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!
Genesis 1:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.
Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 22 helpful votes
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
Genesis 1:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 7:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
1 Chronicles 16:30 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Genesis 1:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.