~ may abide the ~ 04_NUM_31_23  Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make [it] go through the fire, and it shall be clean, nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation, and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. #, 39_MAL_03_02  But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap, #,