2 Corinthians 4:7

Treasure In Earthenware Jars

⁶ For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷ And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the eminence of power be of God, and not of us. ⁸ Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed;

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 our earthly house of the tent were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Lamentations 4:2

The precious sons of Zion being lifted up with fine gold, how they were reckoned for earthen vessels, the work of the hands of the potter.

2 Timothy 2:20

And in a great house there is not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen; and some truly for honour, and some for dishonour.

1 Corinthians 1:28

And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:

2 Corinthians 3:5-6

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency of God;

Judges 7:2

And Jehovah will say to Gideon, The people many which are with thee for me to give Midian into their hand, lest Israel shall glory before me, saying, My hand saved me.

Judges 7:13-14

And Gideon will come, and behold, a man recounting a dream to his neighbor; and he will say, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a round cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Midian; and it will come even to the tent, and it will strike it, and it will fall and will turn it over, so that the tent fell.

Judges 7:16-20

And he will divide the three hundred men into three beginnings, and he will give trumpets into the hand of them all, and empty buckets, and torches in the midst of the buckets.

Job 4:19

Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.

Job 10:9

Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust.

Matthew 13:44

Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a treasure hid in the field; which a man finding, concealed, and from his joy, he retires, and all things which he has he sells, and he purchases that field.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, Therefore every scribe, having been a disciple in the kingdom of the heavens, is like to a man, master of a house, who casts out from his treasure new things and old.

1 Corinthians 2:3-5

And I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much tremor, was with you.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God has exhibited us the last sent, as exposed to death; for we were a theatre to the world, and to messengers, and to men.

2 Corinthians 4:1

For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage;

2 Corinthians 6:10

As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

2 Corinthians 10:10

(For truly the epistles, he says, weighty and strong; but the presence of the body weak, and the word counted as nothing.)

2 Corinthians 12:7-9

And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For also if he was crucified from weakness, but he lives from the power of God. For also we are weak in him, but we live with him from the power of God to you.

Galatians 4:13-14

And ye know that through weakness of the flesh I announced the good news to you before.

Ephesians 1:19-20

And what the surpassing greatness of his power to us believing, according to the action of the might of his strength,

Ephesians 2:5

And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God:

Ephesians 3:8

To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ.

Colossians 1:27

To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery in the nations; 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 immersion, in which also were ye risen together by the faith of the operation of God, having raised him from the dead.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.