2 Corinthians 4:7
And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;
Cross References
Judges 7:2And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, 'Too many [are] the people who [are] with thee for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand hath given salvation to me;
Judges 7:16And he divideth the three hundred men [into] three detachments, and putteth trumpets into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
Job 10:9Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
Matthew 13:44'Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.
1 Corinthians 1:28and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless —
1 Corinthians 4:9for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last — as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became 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 →