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.

And some to honour

General references

Bible References

In a

1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's fellow workers; and you are God's field, you are God's building.
Ephesians 2:22
and in him you, too, are continuously built together for a dwelling-place of God through his Spirit.
1 Timothy 3:15
I am writing this to you in case I should be detained, to let you see how you ought to behave in the household of God??he Church of the everliving God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.
Hebrews 3:2
How faithful he was to the God who appointed him! For while Moses also was faithful in all God's house,
1 Peter 2:5
And yourselves like living stones be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God, through Christ Jesus.

Vessels

2 Corinthians 4:7
But I hold this treasure in an earthen vessel, in order that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God, and not from myself.

And some to honour

Romans 9:21
Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses?

General references

Acts 5:1
But a man named Ananias who, with his wife Sapphira, sold a farm of his,