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Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 249 helpful votes But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.Isaiah 45:9 ESV / 144 helpful votes “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?Jeremiah 18:1-23 ESV / 135 helpful votes The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. Then the word of the Lord came to me: …Romans 9:21 ESV / 127 helpful votes Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?Jeremiah 18:6 ESV / 122 helpful votes “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.Isaiah 29:16 ESV / 119 helpful votes You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?Romans 9:20-21 ESV / 65 helpful votes But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?2 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 60 helpful votes But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.Isaiah 41:25 ESV / 58 helpful votes I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.Genesis 2:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.Jeremiah 18:3 ESV / 50 helpful votes So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.2 Timothy 2:20 ESV / 49 helpful votes Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.Romans 9:20 ESV / 49 helpful votes But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 49 helpful votes I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. …Jeremiah 18:2 ESV / 49 helpful votes “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”Psalm 100:3 ESV / 49 helpful votes Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
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