2 Timothy 2:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor.

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  • Lam 4:2 : 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
  • Rom 9:21-23 : 21 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? 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,
  • 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 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.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 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.
  • Heb 3:2-6 : 2 who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. 3 For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some one; but he that built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken; 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
  • 1 Cor 3:16-17 : 16 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
  • Eph 2:22 : 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
  • Dan 5:2 : 2 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.
  • Exod 27:3 : 3 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.
  • Ezra 1:6 : 6 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.
  • Ezra 6:5 : 5 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.

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    21If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.

  • Rom 9:21-23
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    21Or 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?

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    19Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.

  • 1 Cor 3:12-14
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    12But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;

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  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

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    3The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.

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    21The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; And a man is [tried] by his praise.

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  • 1 Cor 3:9-10
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    9For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.

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