2 Corinthians 4:7

Treasure In Earthenware Jars

⁶ Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷ But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God; ⁸ Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;

Earthen Vessels

From God

Light of the Gospel

Mortal Bodies

Power Belongs to God

O God

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

Lamentations 4:2

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.

1 Corinthians 1:28

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

2 Corinthians 3:5-6

Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

Judges 7:2

And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour.

Judges 7:13-14

When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

Judges 7:16-20

Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.

Job 4:19

How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

Job 10:9

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Matthew 13:44

The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

1 Corinthians 2:3-5

And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.

2 Corinthians 4:1

For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:

2 Corinthians 6:10

As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.

2 Corinthians 10:10

For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong; but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.

2 Corinthians 12:7-9

And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For he was feeble in that he was put to death on the cross, but he is living by the power of God. And we are feeble in him, but we will be living with him through the power of God in relation to you.

Galatians 4:13-14

But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

Ephesians 1:19-20

And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power,

Ephesians 2:5

Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

Ephesians 2:8-9

Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

Ephesians 3:8

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

Colossians 1:27

To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Colossians 2:3

In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

Colossians 2:12

Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.