2 Corinthians 4:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember that you fashioned me like clay, and will you turn me to dust again?

Job 33:6

See, before God I am as you are; I, too, was formed from a piece of clay.

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Lamentations 4:2

The precious children of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold— how they are reckoned as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!

Matthew 13:44

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and reburied; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”

John 16:33

I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!”

1 Corinthians 1:28

God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are,

2 Corinthians 10:10

For someone says, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible.”

2 Corinthians 13:4

For he was crucified in weakness but lives by the power of God. For we are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that, if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Ephesians 3:8

Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ

Colossians 1:27

To them God chose to make known how great among the gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 2:12

when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

Colossians 2:3

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

1 Thessalonians 1:5

because our message of the gospel came to you not in word only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of persons we proved to be among you for your sake.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,

2 Timothy 2:20

In a large house there are utensils not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for special use, some for ordinary.

Judges 7:2

The Lord said to Gideon, “The troops with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand. Israel would only take the credit away from me, saying, ‘My own hand has delivered me.’