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. You are God's farming, God's building.

in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

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

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

Vessels

You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.

All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

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 to Babylon, be restored, and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everyone to its place; and you shall 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 from them.

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

And some to honour

Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

General references

Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner;

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