2 Timothy 2:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

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  • Lam 4:2 : 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they regarded as clay pots, the work of the hands of the potter!
  • Rom 9:21-23 : 21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 22 What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction: 23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
  • 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 But if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Heb 3:2-6 : 2 Who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who has built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone; but He who built all things is God. 5 And Moses truly was faithful in all His house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken later; 6 But Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm until the end.
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are workers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.
  • 1 Cor 3:16-17 : 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.
  • Eph 2:22 : 22 In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.
  • Dan 5:2 : 2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink from them.
  • Exod 27:3 : 3 And you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its forks, and its firepans; all its vessels you shall make of bronze.
  • Ezra 1:6 : 6 And all those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, 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 out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to its place, and place them in the house of God.

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    21Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • Rom 9:21-23
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    21Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

    22What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction:

    23And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

  • 2 Tim 2:19
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    19Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity."

  • 1 Cor 3:12-14
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    12Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw;

    13Each one's work will become clear: for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is.

    14If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.

  • Prov 25:4
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    4Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for the refiner will appear.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.

  • Prov 17:3
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    3The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.

  • Jer 18:4
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    4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

  • 2 Tim 2:15
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    15Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

  • Titus 2:10
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    10Not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

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    1Let as many servants as are under the yoke consider their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed.

  • Prov 27:21
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    21As the refining pot tests silver, and the furnace tests gold, so a man is tested by his praise.

  • Titus 2:7-8
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    7In all things showing yourself a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, dignity, sincerity,

    8Sound speech that cannot be condemned; that he who is of the opposite side may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

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    2For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and there also comes in a poor man in filthy clothes,

  • Titus 1:15
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    15To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

  • Heb 3:4
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    4For every house is built by someone; but He who built all things is God.

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

    10According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man be careful how he builds on it.

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    21In whom all the building fitly framed together grows to a holy temple in the Lord:

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    15Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

  • Rom 2:11
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  • Isa 40:19
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  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29That no flesh should glory in his presence.

  • Rom 12:4
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  • 1 Cor 12:24
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  • Ezek 22:18
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    18Son of man, the house of Israel is to Me like dross: all of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

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    33And every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, whatever is in it shall be unclean; and you shall break it.

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    1For we know that if our earthly body, this tabernacle, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

  • 1 Chr 22:15
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    15Moreover there are workmen with you in abundance, stone cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of skillful men for every kind of work.

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    27Also twenty basins of gold, worth a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine copper, as precious as gold.

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