Iron sharpens iron

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• Proverbs 27:17

  Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

• Micah 4:13

  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.

• Proverbs 27:18

  Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

• Proverbs 27:1–27

  Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. …

• 1 John 4:17

  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.

• Joshua 6:24

  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.

• Deuteronomy 27:5

  And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.

• 2 Samuel 12:31

  And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

• Deuteronomy 3:11

  For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

• Jeremiah 15:12

  Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

• 1 Chronicles 22:3

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

• Proverbs 27:16

  Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

• Job 28:2

  Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

• Revelation 19:15

  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

• 2 Chronicles 18:10

  And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.

• 1 Corinthians 7:1–40

  Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. …

• John 3:16–17

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.