2 Timothy 2:20
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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Ezra 1:6And 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.
Lamentations 4:2The 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!
Romans 9:21Or 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?
1 Corinthians 3:16Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?
Ephesians 2:22In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.
Hebrews 3:2Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.
Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 2:20-22
Cautions against Error. ( a. d. 66.) 19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good… Read the whole commentary →