2 Corinthians 4:7

Treasure In Earthenware Jars

⁶ For the God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to bring forth the light of the knowledge of the clarity of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves; ⁸ We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are unsure of our lives, but not in despair;

Earthen Vessels

From God

Light of the Gospel

Mortal Bodies

Power Belongs to God

O God

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly house of this our habitation were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Lamentations 4:2

Beth The sons of Zion, precious and esteemed more than pure gold, how are they taken for earthen vessels, the work of the hands of the potter!

2 Timothy 2:20

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay, and likewise some to honour, and some to dishonour.

1 Corinthians 1:28

and that which is vile of the world and that which is despised God has chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are,

2 Corinthians 3:5-6

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

Judges 7:2

And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.

Judges 7:13-14

And when Gideon arrived, behold, a man was telling a dream to his fellow, saying, Behold, I dreamed a dream that I saw a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and come unto the tents, and it smote them so that they fell and overturned them, and the tents fell.

Judges 7:16-20

And dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he put a shofar in each man's hand with empty pitchers and torches burning within the pitchers.

Job 4:19

How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who shall be crushed by the moth!

Job 10:9

Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Matthew 13:44

Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like unto treasure hid in the field, which when found, a man hides it and, for the joy thereof, goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 13:52

And he said unto them, Therefore every scribe who is instructed in the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a man, a husband of a house, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

1 Corinthians 2:3-5

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, according to the mercy we have received, we fault not,

2 Corinthians 6:10

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

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 12:7-9

And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me above measure, there is given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. By which we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God in you.

Galatians 4:13-14

Ye know how through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Ephesians 1:19-20

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power in us who believe, by the operation of the power of his strength,

Ephesians 2:5

even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 3:8

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of the Christ

Colossians 1:27

to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery in the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

Colossians 2:3

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

Colossians 2:12

buried together with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

For our gospel did not come unto you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and in full assurance as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.