2 Timothy 2:20
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20 In a large house there are utensils not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for special[a] use, some for ordinary.[b](A)
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1 Peter 2:5
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5 like living stones let yourselves be built[a] into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.(A)
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- 2.5 Or you yourselves are being built
Romans 9:21-23
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21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use?(A) 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction,(B) 23 and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—
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1 Timothy 3:15
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15 if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.(A)
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Lamentations 4:2
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2 The precious children of Zion,
worth their weight in fine gold—
how they are reckoned as earthen pots,
the work of a potter’s hands!(A)
Ezra 6:5
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5 Moreover, let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God that Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon be restored and brought back to the temple in Jerusalem, each to its place; you shall put them in the house of God.”(A)
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2 Corinthians 4:7
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7 But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.(A)
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1 Corinthians 3:9
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9 For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.(A)
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Ezra 1:6
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6 All their neighbors aided them with silver vessels, with gold, with goods, with livestock, and with valuable gifts, besides all that was freely offered.
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Hebrews 3:2-6
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2 who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also “was faithful in all[a] God’s[b] house.” 3 Yet Jesus[c] is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.(A) 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)(B) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s[d] house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later.(C) 6 Christ, however, was faithful over God’s[e] house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm[f] the boldness and the pride inspired by hope.(D)
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Ephesians 2:22
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22 in whom you also are built together spiritually[a] into a dwelling place for God.
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- 2.22 Gk in the Spirit
Daniel 5:2
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2 Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar commanded that they bring in the vessels of gold and silver that his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.(A)
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1 Corinthians 3:16-17
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Exodus 27:3
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3 You shall make pots for its ashes and shovels and basins and forks and firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.(A)
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