Bible Verses about “iron sharpens iron”
The Bible contains 30 verses about iron sharpens iron across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
“¶ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.”
“Faithful [are] the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy [are] deceitful.”
“¶ Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.”
“¶ Open rebuke [is] better than secret love.”
“¶ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.”
“¶ Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”
“Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?”
“¶ Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.”
“¶ A prudent [man] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.”
“¶ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.”
“And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was] therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.”
“¶ A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath [is] heavier than them both.”
“Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a brother far off.”
“¶ As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man.”
“And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy maidens.”
“¶ Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.”
“¶ The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.”
“For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?”
“¶ [As] the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so [is] a man to his praise.”
“Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].”
“¶ As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.”
“¶ Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.”
“The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.”
“¶ My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.”
“¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.”
“¶ He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.”
“The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.”
“¶ Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.”
“Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.”