2 Corinthians 4:7

Modern English Version

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, the excellency of the power being from God and not from ourselves.

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember, I pray, that You have made me as the clay. And would You return me to dust?

Job 33:6

Surely I am before God like you; I also am formed out of the clay.

Job 4:19

Even more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

Lamentations 4:2

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

Matthew 13:44

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid. And with joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 13:52

Then He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who is discipled for the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is master of the household who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

John 16:33

“I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have distress. But be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.”

1 Corinthians 1:28

And God has chosen the inferior things of the world and things which are despised. Yes, and He chose things which are nothing to nullify the things that are,

2 Corinthians 10:10

“For his letters,” they say, “are weighty and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.”

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though He was crucified through weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. So also we are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God serving you.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, since we have this ministry through the mercy we have received, we do not lose heart.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that if our earthly house, this tent, were to be destroyed, we have an eternal building of God in the heavens, a house not made with hands.

2 Corinthians 6:10

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

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in sins, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Ephesians 3:8

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Colossians 1:27

To them God would make known what is the glorious riches of this mystery among the nations. It is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

Colossians 2:12

buried with Him in baptism, in which also you were raised with Him through the faith of the power of God, who has raised Him from the dead.

Colossians 2:3

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

1 Thessalonians 1:5

For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, just as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

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

2 Timothy 2:20

In a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also those of wood and clay; some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

Judges 7:2

The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many people with you for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘Our own power saved us.’