²⁰ Now in ^(A)a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, ^(B)some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.

^5 (A)you yourselves like living stones are being built up as ^(B)a spiritual house, to be ^(C)a holy priesthood, ^(D)to offer spiritual sacrifices ^(E)acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

^21 (A)Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump ^(B)one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? ²² What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience ^(C)vessels of wrath ^(D)prepared for destruction, ²³ in order to make known ^(E)the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he ^(F)has prepared beforehand for glory—

⁹ For we are ^(A)God's fellow workers. You are God's field, ^(B)God's building.

⁵ And also ^(A)let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place. You shall put them in the house of God.”

¹⁵ if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

Treasure in Jars of Clay

⁷ But we have this treasure in ^(A)jars of clay, ^(B)to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

⁶ And all who were about them ^(A)aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.

²² In him ^(A)you also are being built together ^(B)into a dwelling place for God by^[a] the Spirit.