2 Corinthians 4:7

A Conservative Version

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us,

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

1 Corinthians 1:28

And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,

Colossians 2:3

In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Lamentations 4:2

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Colossians 1:27

To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Ephesians 3:8

To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good-news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

2 Corinthians 10:10

Because, The letters, he says, are indeed weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is disdained.

Matthew 13:44

Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man having found, he hid. And from the joy of it, he goes and sells all, as many things as he has, and buys that field.

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen, and some for esteem and some for disesteem.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Because of this (having this ministry), in as much as we received mercy, we do not become discouraged.

Colossians 2:12

Having been buried with him in immersion, in which also ye were raised together through faith of the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Job 4:19

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

1 Thessalonians 1:5

because the good-news from us happened to you not in word only, but also in power, and in Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, as ye know what kind of men we became among you, because of you.

Ephesians 2:5

even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace),

2 Corinthians 13:4

For even if he was crucified from weakness, yet he lives from the power of God. For we in him are also weak, but we will live with him from the power of God toward you.

Judges 7:2

And LORD said to Gideon, The people who are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as grieving, but always rejoicing; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, Because of this every scholar who has been instructed in the kingdom of the heavens is like a man, a house-ruler, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

Job 33:6

Behold, I am toward God even as thou are. I also am formed out of the clay.

John 16:33

These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence,