Jeremiah 18:4

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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.

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  • Jer 18:6 : 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.
  • Rom 9:20-23 : 20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?' 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? 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—
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe to those who strive with their Maker, like a piece of pottery among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

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  • Jer 18:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    1The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:

    2“Rise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear My words.”

    3So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at the wheel.

  • Jer 18:5-7
    3 verses
    87%

    5Then 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.

    7At any moment I might speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to uproot it, tear it down, or destroy it.

  • Rom 9:20-22
    3 verses
    83%

    20But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'

    21Does 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?

    22What if God, wishing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

  • Isa 29:16
    79%

    16You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?

  • Isa 45:9
    77%

    9Woe to those who strive with their Maker, like a piece of pottery among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

  • Isa 64:8
    77%

    8Do not be exceedingly angry, LORD, and do not remember our sins forever. Behold us, we are all your people.

  • Isa 30:14
    74%

    14'Its collapse will be like that of a jar shattered into pieces so small that no fragment can be used to scoop fire from the hearth or draw water from a cistern.'

  • Lam 4:2
    71%

    2The precious children of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen vessels, the work of a potter's hands!

  • Jer 19:11
    70%

    11And say to them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s jar that cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury.’

  • Jer 19:1
    70%

    1This is what the LORD said: Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and of the priests with you.

  • Zech 11:13
    70%

    13Then the LORD said to me, 'Throw it to the potter—the splendid price at which they valued me!' So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter.

  • Job 10:8-9
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    69%

    8Your hands shaped me and made me, yet now You destroy me completely.

    9Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust?

  • Isa 54:16
    69%

    16Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire and produces a weapon fit for its purpose; and I have also created the destroyer to ruin.

  • Job 38:14
    69%

    14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a garment.

  • 2 Tim 2:20
    69%

    20In 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.

  • Jer 33:2
    68%

    2This is what the Lord, the Maker, the Lord who formed it to establish it, whose name is the Lord, says:

  • Job 33:6
    68%

    6Look, I am like you before God; I too was formed from clay.

  • Jer 22:28
    67%

    28Is 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?

  • Isa 44:10
    67%

    10Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?

  • Jer 18:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10But if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will relent concerning the good I had promised to bless it with.

    11And now, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each one from his evil way, and reform your ways and deeds.’

  • Ezek 18:1
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    1The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 24:3
    67%

    3Speak a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, 'This is what the Lord God says: Put the pot on, put it on, and pour water into it.

  • Jer 13:8
    67%

    8Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Isa 40:19
    67%

    19As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.

  • Jer 24:4
    66%

    4Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Acts 7:50
    66%

    50Did not my hand make all these things?

  • Jer 16:20
    66%

    20Can people make their own gods? Such gods are not gods at all!

  • Lev 11:33
    66%

    33If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean, and you must break the pot.

  • Prov 25:4
    66%

    4Remove the impurities from silver, and a vessel will come forth for the refiner.

  • 1 Chr 4:23
    66%

    23These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there along with the king for his work.

  • Jer 27:21
    66%

    21Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:

  • Jer 1:4
    66%

    4The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Jer 45:4
    66%

    4The LORD said, 'This is what you are to say to him: Behold, what I have built I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land.'

  • Jer 15:19
    66%

    19Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'If you return, then I will restore you; you will stand before Me. If you extract the precious from the worthless, you will be My spokesman. They must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.'

  • Zech 4:8
    66%

    8Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Isa 41:25
    66%

    25I have stirred up someone from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, he calls on my name. He treads rulers as if they were clay, like a potter trampling the mud.

  • Ps 2:9
    66%

    9You will break them with an iron rod; You will shatter them like a potter's vessel.

  • Ezek 15:5
    66%

    5Even when it was whole, it could not be made into anything useful. How much less can it be used after the fire has consumed it and it is charred!