Bible Verses About Iron Sharpens Iron
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for iron sharpens iron, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 394 votes, led by Proverbs 27:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Iron Sharpens Iron
Proverbs 27:17195 votes
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Proverbs 27:1-2725 votes
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Proverbs 27:1819 votes
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
Micah 4:1319 votes
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.
Joshua 6:2413 votes
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.
1 John 4:1713 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 27:512 votes
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 12:3112 votes
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.
1 Chronicles 22:311 votes
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;
2 Chronicles 18:1011 votes
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.
Job 28:211 votes
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
Proverbs 27:1611 votes
Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
Jeremiah 15:1211 votes
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
Revelation 19:1511 votes
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.
Deuteronomy 3:1110 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4010 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
What does the Bible say about iron sharpens iron?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 27:17 on the subject of iron sharpens iron. Across 394 votes, 16 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 27:1-27, Proverbs 27:18, Micah 4:13. This page lists all 16 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.