2 Corinthians 4:7 Cross References - Worrell

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness may be of God, and not from ourselves;

⁴⁴ "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid; and in his joy he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

⁵² and He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe, having been made a disciple to the Kingdom of heaven, is like a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old."

²⁸ and the base things of the world, and things despised, did God choose, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nought the things that are;

³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; ⁵ that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁹ For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are highly esteemed; but we are without honor. ¹¹ Even until this present hour, we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place; ¹² and we toil, laboring with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; ¹³ being defamed, we entreat; we were made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now.

⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God; ⁶ Who also qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

¹ Therefore, having this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not;

¹ For we know that, if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

¹⁰ as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

¹⁰ because, "His letters, indeed," says one, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible."

⁷ And, that I might not be exalted overmuch by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch. ⁸ Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. ⁹ And He hath said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you; for My power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

⁴ for, indeed, He was crucified through weakness, but He liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him through the power of God toward you.

¹³ but ye know that through weakness of the flesh I proclaimed the Gospel to you formerly; ¹⁴ and my trial in my flesh ye despised not, nor spurned; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ and what the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of the strength of His might, ²⁰ which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the Heavenly places,

⁵ even when we were dead in our offenses, made us alive with Christ (by grace ye have been saved),

⁸ For by grace ye have been saved through faith: and this, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God: ⁹ not of works, lest any one should boast;

⁸ To me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to proclaim, to the gentiles, the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

³ in Whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden away.

¹² having been buried with Him in your immersion, in which ye were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, Who raised Him from the dead;

⁵ because our Gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we became toward you, for your sake.

²⁰ But, in a great house, there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some, indeed, unto honor and some unto dishonor.