2 Corinthians 4:7 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁷ 6 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

Common English Bible

⁷ But we have this treasure in clay pots so that the awesome power belongs to God and doesn’t come from us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, so that what is sublime may be of the power of God, and not of us.

2 Corinthians 4:7 Cross References

Job 10:9

4 If I have sinned and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?

Job 33:6

2 Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified : I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

Job 4:19

I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.

Lamentations 4:2

0 Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Matthew 13:44

2 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to his servants: This is John the Baptist: he is risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works shew forth themselves in him.

John 16:33

Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

1 Corinthians 1:28

Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought;

2 Corinthians 10:10

Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly: but do bear with me.

2 Corinthians 13:4

3 All the saints salute you.

2 Corinthians 4:1

0 Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.

2 Corinthians 5:1

0 For we must all be manifested before the judgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil.

2 Corinthians 6:10

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sactification in the fear of God.

Ephesians 2:5

4 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh:

Ephesians 3:8

7 That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,

Colossians 1:27

Rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned, abounding in him in thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:12

1 Touch not, taste not, handle not:

Colossians 2:3

2 Buried with him in baptism, in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him up from the dead.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who proveth our hearts.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

3 And we will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

2 Timothy 2:20

Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness,

Judges 7:2

And the Lord said to Gedeon: By the three hundred men, that lapped water, I will save you, and deliver Madian into thy hand: but let all the rest of the people return to their place.