2 Timothy 2:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.

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  • Lam 4:2 : 2 The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
  • Rom 9:21-23 : 21 Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame? 22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction: 23 And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
  • 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Heb 3:2-6 : 2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house. 3 And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house. 4 For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God. 5 And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later; 6 But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.
  • 1 Cor 3:16-17 : 16 Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you? 17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;
  • Eph 2:22 : 22 In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.
  • Dan 5:2 : 2 Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.
  • Exod 27:3 : 3 And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.
  • Ezra 1:6 : 6 And all their neighbours gave them help with offerings of vessels of silver and gold and goods and beasts and things of great value, in addition to what was freely offered.
  • Ezra 6:5 : 5 And let the gold and silver vessels from the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple at Jerusalem to Babylon, be given back and taken again to the Temple at Jerusalem, every one in its place, and put them in the house of God.

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  • 2 Tim 2:21
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    21If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

  • Rom 9:21-23
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    21Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

    22What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

    23And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

  • 2 Tim 2:19
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    19But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.

  • 1 Cor 3:12-14
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    12But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;

    13Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

    14If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.

  • Prov 25:4
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    4Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

  • Prov 17:3
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    3The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • Jer 18:4
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    4And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

  • 2 Tim 2:15
    68%

    15Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

  • Titus 2:10
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    10Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.

  • 1 Tim 6:1
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    1Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.

  • Prov 27:21
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    21The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

  • Titus 2:7-8
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    7In all things see that you are an example of good works; holy in your teaching, serious in behaviour,

    8Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

  • Jas 2:2
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    2For if a man comes into your Synagogue in fair clothing and with a gold ring, and a poor man comes in with dirty clothing,

  • Titus 1:15
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    15To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

  • Heb 3:4
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    4For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

  • 1 Cor 3:9-10
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    9For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

    10In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

  • 1 Sam 2:30
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    30For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.

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    4So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

  • Ezra 7:19
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    19And the vessels which have been given to you for the uses of the house of your God, you are to give to the God of Jerusalem.

  • Exod 25:39
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    39A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.

  • Jude 1:22-23
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    22And have pity on those who are in doubt;

    23And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

  • Eph 2:21
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    21In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

  • 2 Pet 3:11
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    11Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,

  • 2 Kgs 12:13
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    13But the money was not used for making silver cups or scissors or basins or wind-instruments or any vessels of gold or silver for the house of the Lord;

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

  • Job 3:15
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    15Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

  • Rom 2:11
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    11For one man is not different from another before God.

  • Isa 40:19
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    19The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29So that no flesh might have glory before God.

  • Rom 12:4
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    4For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

  • 2 Cor 6:8
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    8By glory and by shame, by an evil name and a good name; as untrue, and still true;

  • 1 Cor 12:24
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    24But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it;

  • Ezek 22:18
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    18Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.

  • Lev 11:33
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    33And if one of them gets into any vessel of earth, whatever is in the vessel will be unclean and the vessel will have to be broken.

  • 2 Cor 5:1
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    1For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

  • 1 Chr 22:15
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    15And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

  • Titus 2:5
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    5To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

  • Ezra 8:27
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    27And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

  • 1 Pet 2:4
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    4To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;