2 Corinthians 4:7

Tree of Life Version

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, so that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God and not from ourselves.

Cross References

Job 10:9

Remember You fashioned me like clay; will You return me to dust?

Job 33:6

Look, I am the same as you before God; I too am formed from clay.

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?

Lamentations 4:2

The precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in gold— alas! now they are treated like clay jars, the work of a potter’s hands!

Matthew 13:44

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. And because of his joy, he goes out and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 13:52

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

John 16:33

These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have shalom. In the world you will have trouble, but take heart! I have overcome the world!”

1 Corinthians 1:28

and God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, the things that are as nothing, so He might bring to nothing the things that are—

2 Corinthians 10:10

for they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his presence in person is weak and his speech of no account.”

2 Corinthians 13:4

For He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we shall live with Him by God’s power toward you.

2 Corinthians 4:1

For this reason, since we have this ministry, just as we received mercy, we do not lose heart.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the tent, our earthly home, is torn down, we have a building from God—a home not made with human hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing yet possessing everything.

Ephesians 2:5

Even when we were dead in our trespasses, He made us alive together with Messiah. (By grace you have been saved!)

Ephesians 3:8

This favor was given to me, the very least of His kedoshim, to proclaim to the Gentiles the endless riches of the Messiah

Colossians 1:27

God chose to make known to them this glorious mystery regarding the Gentiles—which is Messiah in you, the hope of glory!

Colossians 2:12

You were buried along with Him in immersion, through which you also were raised with Him by trusting in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

Colossians 2:3

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

1 Thessalonians 1:5

because our Good News did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Ruach ha-Kodesh and with complete certainty—just as you know what kind of men we proved to be while among you for your sake.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

to know, each of you, how to gain control over his own body in holiness and honor—

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay—some for honor and some for common use.

Judges 7:2

But Adonai said to Gideon, “Too many are the people who are with you, for Me to give the Midianites into their hand. Otherwise Israel would glorify itself against Me saying, ‘My own hand has delivered me.’