7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; …
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: …
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The apostle had, in the foregoing chapter, been magnifying his office , upon the consideration of the excellency or glory of that gospel about which he did officiate; and now in this chapter his design is to vindicate their ministry from the accusation of false teachers, who charged them as deceitful workers, or endeavoured to prejudice the minds of the people against them on account of their suff…
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