Proverbs 27:21

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions X.37Book X

  “Our daily “furnace” is the human tongue.” — editor's note: Isa. xlviii. 10, and Prov. xxvii. 21.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 70

  “Hear how even the tongue of flatterers is of such sort: “The proving,” he saith, “of silver and of gold is fire; but a man is proved by the tongue of men praising him.”” — editor's note: Prov. xxvii. 21.

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Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, Letters Letter 183

  “To all that earnestly strive for any good, the affliction they endure for the sake of their hope in God is like a furnace to gold.” — editor's note: cf. Prov. xvii. 3 and xxvii. 21.

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• Isaiah 48:10

  Cited together in Confessions X.37.

• Lamentations 3:48

  Cited together in Confessions X.37.

• Matthew 6:2

  Cited together in Confessions X.37.

• Matthew 6:5

  Cited together in Confessions X.37.

• Galatians 6:3

  Cited together in Confessions X.37.

• 1 John 1:8

  Cited together in Confessions X.37.

• 1 John 2:16

  Cited together in Confessions X.37.

• Leviticus 19:18

  Cited together in Confessions X.37.

• Psalm 19:12

  Cited together in Confessions X.37.

• Proverbs 17:3

  Cited together in Letters Letter 183.