²³ and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire,^(A) and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing.^(B) And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water.

⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness^(A) of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire^(B)—may result in praise, glory and honor^(C) when Jesus Christ is revealed.^(D)