Bible Verses About Vessels
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for vessels, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,576 votes, led by 2 Timothy 2:21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Vessels
2 Timothy 2:21335 votes
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
2 Timothy 2:20-21284 votes
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.
2 Corinthians 4:7263 votes
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
1 Peter 3:7214 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Isaiah 64:8165 votes
But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Romans 9:21-23162 votes
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Acts 9:15156 votes
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20149 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Thessalonians 4:4142 votes
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
2 Kings 4:1-7104 votes
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons 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 take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Revelation 2:27101 votes
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
2 Kings 4:3-499 votes
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
Luke 8:1692 votes
No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
Jeremiah 18:471 votes
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:1-670 votes
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
1 Thessalonians 4:3-570 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
James 4:758 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2 Chronicles 24:1444 votes
And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the Lord, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehoiada.
Matthew 12:2938 votes
Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
Colossians 3:23-2438 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
2 Kings 4:3-637 votes
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
Exodus 25:2935 votes
And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
Ezra 1:7-1132 votes
Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
Hebrews 2:1431 votes
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Matthew 25:429 votes
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
What does the Bible say about vessels?
Readers most often cite 2 Timothy 2:21 on the subject of vessels. Across 3,576 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Timothy 2:20-21, 2 Corinthians 4:7, 1 Peter 3:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.