Verse 21

Does not the potter have the right over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said to him, "Go, for this man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before Gentiles, kings, and the sons of Israel.
  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 In a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay; some are for honorable use and some for dishonorable. 21 If anyone cleanses themselves from the latter, they will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
  • Prov 16:4 : 4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
  • Rom 9:11 : 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand,
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills.
  • Rom 9:22-23 : 22 What if God, wishing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And what if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of mercy, whom he prepared beforehand for glory—
  • Jer 18:3-6 : 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at the wheel. 4 But the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, so he remade it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 6 “Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
  • Jer 22:28 : 28 Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, an object no one cares for? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
  • Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations like something worthless.