2 Corinthians 4:7
And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us,
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8being in tribulation in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
Cross References
Judges 7:2And YHWH says to Gideon, “The people who [are] with you [are] too many for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand has given salvation to me;
Judges 7:16And he divides the three hundred men [into] three detachments, and puts horns into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
Job 10:9Please remember || That You have made me as clay, || And You bring me back to dust.
Matthew 13:44Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found, hid, and from his joy goes, and all, as much as he has, he sells, and buys that field.
1 Corinthians 1:28and God chose the base things of the world, and the things despised, and the things that are not, that He may make useless the things that are—
1 Corinthians 4:9for I think that God set forth us the apostles last—as appointed to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, and messengers, and 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 →