2 Timothy 2:20 BSB — MannaFest

2 Timothy 2:20

A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.

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ASV

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

KJV

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But in a great house - Here the apostle carries on the allusion introduced in the preceding verse. As the foundation of God refers to God’s building, i.e. the whole system of Christianity, so here the great house is to be understood of the same; and the different kinds of vessels mean the different teachers, as well as the different kinds of members.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

But in a great house - Such as the church, it is not strange that there are not only vessels of gold and silver, designed for honourable uses, but also of wood and of earth - For less honourable purposes. Yet a vessel even of gold may be put to the vilest use, though it was not the design of him that made it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1348: “The Great House and the Vessels In It” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1877)

ONE of the most serious calamities which can befall a Church is to have her own ministers teaching heresy. Yet this is no new thing—it has happened from the beginning. Paul and Peter and James and John, in their Epistles, had to speak of seducers in the Churches, even in those primitive days, and ever since then there have arisen in the very midst of the House of God those who have subverted the faith of many and led them away from the fundamental Truths of God into errors of their own inventing.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἐν	En	In	G1722 →
μεγάλῃ	megalē	a great	G3173 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
οἰκίᾳ	oikia	house	G3614 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔστιν	estin	there are	G1510 →
μόνον	monon	only	G3441 →
σκεύη	skeuē	vessels	G4632 →
χρυσᾶ	chrusa	golden	G5552 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀργυρᾶ	argura	silver	G693 →
ἀλλὰ	alla	but	G235 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ξύλινα	xulina	wooden	G3585 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὀστράκινα,	ostrakina	earthen,	G3749 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἃ	ha	some	G3739 →
μὲν	men	indeed	G3303 →
εἰς	eis	unto	G1519 →
τιμὴν	timēn	honor	G5092 →
ἃ	ha	some	G3739 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
εἰς	eis	unto	G1519 →
ἀτιμίαν.	atimian	dishonor.	G819 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 2:5
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
leads to
- Ephesians 2:20–22
  built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 3:16
  Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 2:9
  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9
  For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- Revelation 5:10
  You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
Through
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:5
  you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Corinthians 6:1
  As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
Through
1 Timothy 3:15
in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
leads to
- Ephesians 2:21–22
  In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 2 Timothy

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 2 Timothy