2 Corinthians 4:7

But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, so that what is sublime may be of the power of God, and not of us.

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In The King James Version

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

In Context

6For God, who told the light to shine out of darkness, has shined a light into our hearts, to illuminate the knowledge of the splendor of God, in the person of Christ Jesus.

8In all things, we endure tribulation, yet we are not in anguish. We are constrained, yet we are not destitute.

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Cross References

Judges 7:2And the Lord said to Gideon: “The people with you are many, but Midian shall not be delivered into their hands, for then Israel might glory against me, and say, ‘I was freed by my own power.’

Judges 7:16And he divided the three hundred men into three parts. And he gave trumpets, and empty pitchers, and lamps for the middle of the pitchers, into their hands.

Job 10:9Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.

Matthew 13:44The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. When a man finds it, he hides it, and, because of his joy, he goes and sells everything that he has, and he buys that field.

1 Corinthians 1:28And God has chosen the ignoble and contemptible of the world, those who are nothing, so that he may reduce to nothing those who are something.

1 Corinthians 4:9For I think that God has presented us as the last Apostles, as those destined for death. For we have been made into a spectacle for the world, and for Angels, and for 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 →

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