2 Timothy 2:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

In a

1 Peter 2:5

Vessels

And some to honour

Romans 9:21

General references

Proverbs 25:4

Acts 5:1

Bible References

In a

For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Vessels

And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

And all they that were round about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to its place; and thou shalt put them in the house of God.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink therefrom.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

And some to honour

Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

General references

Take away the dross from the silver, And there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner:

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,