2 Corinthians 4:7

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

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.

Job 33:6

Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.

Job 4:19

How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?

Lamentations 4:2

BETH. The famous sons of Zion, and those clothed with the foremost gold: how they have become like earthen vessels, the work of the hands of a potter.

Matthew 13:44

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. When a man finds it, he hides it, and, because of his joy, he goes and sells everything that he has, and he buys that field.

Matthew 13:52

He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe well-taught about the kingdom of heaven, is like a man, the father of a family, who offers from his storehouse both the new and the old."

John 16:33

These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world."

1 Corinthians 1:28

And God has chosen the ignoble and contemptible of the world, those who are nothing, so that he may reduce to nothing those who are something.

2 Corinthians 10:10

For they say: "His epistles, indeed, are weighty and strong. But his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is contemptible."

2 Corinthians 13:4

For although he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. And yes, we are weak in him. But we shall live with him by the power of God among you.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, since we have this ministry, and in as much as we have obtained mercy for ourselves, we are not inadequate.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as if sorrowful and yet always rejoicing; as if needy and yet enriching many; as if having nothing and possessing everything.

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in our sins, has enlivened us together in Christ, by whose grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 3:8

Although I am the least of all the saints, I have been given this grace: to evangelize among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Colossians 1:27

To them, God willed to made known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ and the hope of his glory within you.

Colossians 2:12

You have been buried with him in baptism. In him also, you have risen again through faith, by the work of God, who raised him up from the dead.

Colossians 2:3

For in him are hidden all treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

For our Gospel has not been among you in word alone, but also in virtue, and in the Holy Spirit, and with a great fullness, in the same manner as you know we have acted among you for your sake.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

2 Timothy 2:20

But, in a large house, there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also those of wood and of clay; and certainly some are held in honor, but others in dishonor.

Judges 7:2

And the Lord said to Gideon: "The people with you are many, but Midian shall not be delivered into their hands, for then Israel might glory against me, and say, 'I was freed by my own power.'