2 Corinthians 4:7
But I am keeping this jewel in an earthen jar, to prove that its surpassing power is God's, not mine.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For I know that if this earthly tent in which I live is taken down, I have a building in heaven which comes from God, a house not built by human hands but eternal.
2 Timothy 2:20
In any great house there are not only gold and silver articles but also wooden utensils, some for honorable uses and some for lowly uses.
1 Corinthians 1:28
what the world calls of low degree, yea, what it counts as nothing and what it thinks does not exist, God chose to put a stop to what it thinks exists,
2 Corinthians 3:5-6
Not that I am myself qualified to consider anything as coming from me myself. No, my qualification comes from God, for
Matthew 13:44
"The kingdom of heaven is like a pot of gold which was buried in a field, which a man found and buried again; and for joy over it he went and sold all he had and bought that field.
Matthew 13:52
He said to them, "Every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who can bring out of his storeroom new furnishings as well as old."
1 Corinthians 2:3-5
Yes, as for myself, it was in weakness and fear and great trembling that I came to you,
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.
2 Corinthians 4:1
So, because I hold a place in this ministry and that because I have had God's mercy shown me, I never give up.
2 Corinthians 6:10
sad but always glad, poor but making many people rich, penniless but really possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 10:10
For they say, "His letters are impressive and forceful, but his physical personality is unimpressive, and his delivery is perfectly contemptible."
2 Corinthians 12:7-9
So, to keep me from being over-elated, there was sent upon me a physical disease, sharp as a piercing stake, a messenger of Satan, to continue afflicting me, and so to keep me, I repeat, from being over-elated.
2 Corinthians 13:4
For though He was crucified in weakness, yet by the power of God He goes on living. We too, indeed, show weakness through our union with Him, yet by the power of God we too shall be alive toward you through fellowship with Him.
Galatians 4:13-14
And yet you know that it was because of an illness of mine that I preached the good news to you the first time,
Ephesians 1:19-20
and how surpassingly great is His power for us who believe, measured by His tremendously mighty power
Ephesians 2:5
has made us, though dead because of our shortcomings, live again in fellowship with Christ -- it is by His unmerited favor that you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by His unmerited favor through faith that you have been saved; it is not by anything that you have done, it is the gift of God.
Ephesians 3:8
yes, on me, the very least of all His people, this unmerited favor was bestowed -- that I might preach as good news to the heathen the boundless riches of Christ,
Colossians 1:27
to whom God has chosen to make known how glorious are the riches of this open secret among the heathen, namely, Christ in you the hope of your glorification.
Colossians 2:3
in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are stored up.
Colossians 2:12
for you were buried with Him in baptism and raised to life with Him through your faith in the power of God who raised Him from the dead.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
for our preaching of the good news came to you not entirely in words but with power and with the Holy Spirit and with absolute certainty (for you know the kind of men we were among you for your own sakes).