2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing,
Cross References
Judges 7:2And LORD said to Gideon, The people who are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.
Judges 7:16And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put trumpets into the hands of all of them, and empty pitchers, with torches inside the pitchers.
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?
Matthew 13:44Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man having found, he hid. And from the joy of it, he goes and sells all, as many things as he has, and buys that field.
1 Corinthians 1:28And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,
1 Corinthians 4:9For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 4:2-8
Constancy and Sincerity of the Apostles; The Apostle's Integrity. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which… Read the whole commentary →