2 Timothy 2:20
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20 But in a great house there are not only (A)vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.
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Romans 9:21-23
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21 Does not the (A)potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make (B)one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering (C)the vessels of wrath (D)prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known (E)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had (F)prepared beforehand for glory,
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1 Peter 2:5
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5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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1 Timothy 3:15
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15 but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and [a]ground of the truth.
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- 1 Timothy 3:15 foundation, mainstay
1 Corinthians 3:9
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9 For (A)we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are (B)God’s building.
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Lamentations 4:2
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2 The precious sons of Zion,
[a]Valuable as fine gold,
How they are [b]regarded (A)as clay pots,
The work of the hands of the potter!
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- Lamentations 4:2 Lit. Weighed against
- Lamentations 4:2 reckoned
Ezra 6:5
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5 Also let (A)the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple which is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and taken back to the temple which is in Jerusalem, each to its place; and deposit them in the house of God”—
Ephesians 2:22
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22 (A)in whom you also are being built together for a (B)dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
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2 Corinthians 4:7
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Cast Down but Unconquered
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, (A)that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
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Ezra 1:6
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6 And all those who were around them [a]encouraged them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with precious things, besides all that was (A)willingly offered.
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- Ezra 1:6 Lit. strengthened their hands
Hebrews 3:2-6
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2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as (A)Moses also was faithful in all His house. 3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as (B)He who built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but (C)He who built all things is God. 5 (D)And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as (E)a servant, (F)for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, 6 but Christ as (G)a Son over His own house, (H)whose house we are (I)if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope [a]firm to the end.
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- Hebrews 3:6 NU omits firm to the end
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
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16 (A)Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone [a]defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
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- 1 Corinthians 3:17 destroys
Daniel 5:2
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2 While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels (A)which his [a]father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
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- Daniel 5:2 Or ancestor
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