2 Timothy 2:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But in a great house are not onely vessels of golde, and of siluer, but also of wood and of earth: some to honour, and some vnto dishonour.

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  • Lam 4:2 : 2 The chyldren of Sion that were alway in honour, and clothed with the most precious golde: howe are they nowe become lyke the earthen vessels, whiche be made with the potters hande?
  • Rom 9:21-23 : 21 Hath not the potter power ouer the clay, euen of the same lumpe to make one vessel vnto honour, and another vnto dishonour? 22 If then, God wyllyng to shewe his wrath, and to make his power knowe, suffred with long patience, the vessels of wrath, ordayned to destruction, 23 To declare the riches of his glory, on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared vnto glory:
  • 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 But yf I tary long, that thou mayest knowe howe thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in the house of God, whiche is the Church of the lyuyng God, the pyller and grounde of trueth.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 And ye as lyuely stones, be you made a spirituall house, an holy priesthood, for to offer vp spirituall sacrifices, acceptable to God by Iesus Christe.
  • Heb 3:2-6 : 2 Beyng faythfull to hym that appoynted hym, as also was Moyses in all his house. 3 For this man is counted worthy of more glorie then Moyses, inasmuch as he which hath buylded the house, hath more honour then the house. 4 For euery house is buylded of some man: But he that buylded all thynges, is God. 5 And Moyses veryly was faythfull in al his house, as a minister, for a witnesse of those thynges whiche were to be spoken after: 6 But Christe as a sonne hath rule ouer his owne house, whose house are we, yf we holde fast the confidence and the reioycyng of that hope vnto the ende.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we together are Gods labourers, ye are Gods husbandrie ye are Gods buyldyng.
  • 1 Cor 3:16-17 : 16 Knowe ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirite of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defyle the temple of God, hym shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power be Gods, and not ours.
  • Eph 2:22 : 22 In whom ye also are buylded together for an habitation of God through the spirite.
  • Dan 5:2 : 2 And Balthasar when he had tasted the wine, commaunded to bring hym the golden and siluer vessels, whiche his father Nabuchodonozor had brought from the temple in Hierusalem, that the king and his princes, and his wyues, and his concubines, might drinke therin.
  • Exod 27:3 : 3 And make his ashpannes for his ashes, his beesomes, his basons, his fleshehookes, his firepannes: and all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brasse.
  • Ezra 1:6 : 6 And all they that were about them, strengthed their hande with vessels of siluer & golde, with goodes, and cattaile, and iewels, besides all that was wyllingly offered.
  • Ezra 6:5 : 5 And let the golde and siluer vessels of the house of God, which Nabuchodonosor toke out of the temple at Hierusalem and brought vnto Babylon, be restored, and brought againe vnto the temple at Hierusalem to their place in the house of God.

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  • 21 If a man therfore pourge hym selfe from these, he shalbe a vessell vnto honour, and meete for ye vses of the Lorde, and prepared vnto euery good worke.

  • Rom 9:21-23
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    21 Hath not the potter power ouer the clay, euen of the same lumpe to make one vessel vnto honour, and another vnto dishonour?

    22 If then, God wyllyng to shewe his wrath, and to make his power knowe, suffred with long patience, the vessels of wrath, ordayned to destruction,

    23 To declare the riches of his glory, on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared vnto glory:

  • 19 But the strong foundation of God standeth styl, hauyng this seale: The Lorde knoweth the that are his: And, let euery one that nameth the name of Christe, depart from iniquitie.

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    12 If any man buylde on this foundation, golde, syluer, precious stones, tymber, haye or stubble:

    13 Euery mans worke shal appeare. The day shall declare it, because it shalbe reuealed by the fire: And the fire shall trie euery mans worke what it is.

    14 If any mans worke that he hath built vpon abyde, he shall receaue a reward.

  • 4 Take the drosse from the siluer, and there shalbe a vessell for the siner.

  • 17 If any man defyle the temple of God, hym shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

  • 7 But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power be Gods, and not ours.

  • 3 As siluer is tryed in the fire, and golde in the furnace: so doth the Lorde proue the heartes.

  • 4 The vessell that the potter made of clay, brake among his handes: So he began a newe, and made another vessell accordyng to his mynde.

  • 15 Studie to shewe thy selfe approued vnto God, a workman not to be ashamed, rightlie deuidyng the worde of trueth.

  • 10 Neither pickers, but shewing all good faythfulnesse, that they may adourne the doctrine of God our sauiour in all thynges.

  • 1 Let as many seruauntes as are vnder the yoke, count their maisters worthy of all honour, that the name of god and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

  • 21 As is the fining pot for the siluer, and the furnace for golde: so is a man tryed by the mouth of him that prayseth him.

  • Titus 2:7-8
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    7 In all thynges shewyng thy selfe a paterne of good workes, in the doctrine, vncorruptnesse, grauitie, integritie,

    8 Wholsome worde, vnrebukeable, that he which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauyng no euyll thyng to say of you.

  • 2 For yf there come into your companie a man wearing a golde ryng, clothed in goodly apparell, and there come in also a poore man in vile rayment:

  • 15 Unto the pure, are all thynges pure: but vnto them that are defyled and vnbeleuyng, is nothyng pure, but euen the mynde and conscience of them is defyled.

  • 4 For euery house is buylded of some man: But he that buylded all thynges, is God.

  • 1 Cor 3:9-10
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    9 For we together are Gods labourers, ye are Gods husbandrie ye are Gods buyldyng.

    10 Accordyng to the grace of God geuen vnto me, as a wise maister builder haue I layde the foundation, and another buyldeth theron. But let euery man take heede howe he buyldeth vpon.

  • 30 Wherefore the Lorde God of Israel saith: I sayde, that thy house and the house of thy father should walke before me for euer: But nowe the Lorde saith, That be farre fro me: For them that worship me, I wyll worship, and they that despise me, shall come to shame.

  • 4 That euery one of you should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holynesse and honour:

  • 19 And the vessels that are geuen thee for the ministration in the house of thy God, those deliuer thou before God at Hierusalem.

  • 39 Of a talent of fine gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

  • Jude 1:22-23
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    22 And haue compassion of some, seperatyng them:

    23 And other saue with feare, pullyng them out of the fyre, and haue compassion on the other, and hate euen the garment spotted by the fleshe.

  • 17 For we are not as many are, whiche chop & chaunge with the word of God: but as of purenesse of God, in the syght of God, so speake we in Christe.

  • 21 In whom all the buyldyng coupled together, groweth vnto an holy temple in the Lorde.

  • 11 Seyng then that all these thynges shall perisshe, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlynesse:

  • 13 Howbeit, there was not made for the house of the Lorde bowles of siluer, instrumentes of musicke, basons, trumpets, or any vessels of golde, or vessels of siluer, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lorde.

  • 1 Seyng that we haue these promises (dearely beloued) let vs clense our selues from all fylthynesse of the flesshe & spirite, and growe vp to full holynesse in the feare of God.

  • 15 Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer:

  • 11 For there is no respect of persos with God.

  • 19 Shall the caruer make hym a carued image? and shall the goldesmith couer hym with golde, or cast hym into a fourme of siluer plates?

  • 11 And such were some of you: but ye are wasshed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are iustified in the name of the Lord Iesus, and by the spirite of our God.

  • 29 That no fleshe shoulde reioyce in his presence.

  • 4 For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not one office:

  • 8 By honour and dishonour, by euyll report and good report, as deceauers and yet true,

  • 24 For our comely members neede it not: But God hath tempered the body together, and hath geuen the more honour to that part which lacked:

  • 18 Thou sonne of man, the house of Israel is vnto me as drosse: all they are brasse, tinne, iron, and lead in the middest of the furnace, euen drosse of siluer are they.

  • 33 All maner of earthen vessell wherinto any of them falleth, shalbe vncleane, with all that therein is, and it shalbe broken.

  • 1 For we knowe, that yf our earthly house of this tabernacle were destroyed, we haue a building of God, an habitation not made with handes, but eternall in heauen.

  • 15 Moreouer, thou hast workemen with thee mowe, and masons, and carpenters to worke in stone and timber, & many men that be actiue for euery worke,

  • 5 (To be) discrete, chaste, house kepers, good, obedient vnto their owne husbandes, that the worde of God be not blasphemed.

  • 27 Twentie basons of gold of a thousand drammes, and two costly vessels of good brasse, as cleare as golde.

  • 4 To whom ye come, as vnto a lyuyng stone, disalowed of men, but chosen of God and precious: