Sirach 2:5
Bible text
For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.
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Statistics
This verse is not part of the public verse order Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering), so it has no numbers there.
Persons in this verse
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Topics of this verse
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Numbering in the versification systems?
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse has the following labels; labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse?
Uses?
2 approved public uses (data: Official), newest first.
- Date
- Jan 1, 360 – Dec 31, 435
- Cited as
- Sirach 2:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, CONFERENCES
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- John Cassian
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- Marseille
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 327 – Dec 31, 410
- Cited as
- Sirach 2:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, TO BENIVOLUS
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Gaudentius of Brescia
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- Brescia
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed – counting rule: Every covered verse (baseline) / Named verses only; data: Official; as of Nov 9, 2026, 11:09 PM UTC
Neutral key: nrf1:SIR.002.005
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- Every covered verse (baseline) The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Named verses only Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – uses naming the verse (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- Official The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 131, published Nov 9, 2026, 11:09 PM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
- Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering)
prot66.nrf, mapping release R9 - Rank
- As in the Top 100: uses naming the verse, highest first, over the verses named at least once; tied verses share a rank.
- Uses
- Approved public uses of the data shown, with at least one cited passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. The Bible text is shown for reading only; it is never counted. How we count Glossary