Bible verses about "vessels" | MSTC

¹ I stood upon my watch, and set me upon my bulwark, to look and see what he would say unto me, and what answer I should give him that reproveth me. ² But the LORD answered me, and said, "Write the vision plainly upon thy tables, that whoso cometh by, may read it: ³ for the vision is yet far off for a time, but at the last it shall come to pass, and not fail. And though he tarry, yet wait thou for him, for in very deed he will come, and not be slack.

²⁹ Peter and the other apostles answered, and said, "We ought more to obey God than men.

²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as though ye did it to the Lord, and not unto men, ²⁴ forasmuch as ye know that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

²⁰ Notwithstanding, in a great house are not only vessels of gold and of silver: but also of wood and of earth: Some for honour, and some unto dishonour. ²¹ But if a man purge himself from such fellows, he shall be a vessel sanctified unto honour meet for the Lord, and prepared unto all good works.

¹⁶ No man lighteth a candle, and covereth it under a vessel, neither putteth it under the table: but setteth it on a candlestick, that they that enter in, may see the light.

³ For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication, ⁴ that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour, ⁵ and not in the lust of concupiscence, as do the heathen, which know not God,

⁷ Submit yourselves to God, and resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

¹ And there cried a certain woman of the wives of the children of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, "Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD. And the creditor is come to fetch my two sons, to be his bondmen." ² And Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thine house?" And she said, thy handmaid hath nothing at all in her house, save a pitcher with oil. ³ And he said, "Go and borrow thee in other places, of all thy neighbours, empty vessels — and that not a few. ⁴ And then go and shut the door to thee and to thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels, and put the full always aside." ⁵ And she went from him, and shut the door to her and her sons. And they brought to her, and she poured out. ⁶ And when the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring yet a vessel." And he said, "There is no more." And then the oil ceased. ⁷ Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, "Go and sell the oil and pay thy creditor. And live, thou and thy children, off the rest."

⁷ Likewise, ye men, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as unto them that are heirs also of the grace of life, that your prayers be not let.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellent power of it might appear to be of God, and not of us.

¹⁹ Either, know ye not how that your bodies are the temple of the holy ghost, which is in you, whom he have of God, and how that ye are not your own? ²⁰ For ye are dearly bought. Therefore glorify ye God in your bodies and in your spirits, for they are God's.

²¹ But if a man purge himself from such fellows, he shall be a vessel sanctified unto honour meet for the Lord, and prepared unto all good works.