God is the potter and we are the clay

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The Bible envisions God as a potter, and we believers as clay. Are you pliable in the hands of God? Will you let him form you into the person he desires?

 

 

Isaiah 29:16. You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

Isaiah 45:9. Woe to him who strives with his Maker—a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Isaiah 64:8. But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 18:2. Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.

Jeremiah 18:3. Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.

Jeremiah 18:4. When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Jeremiah 18:6. O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. (NIV translation)

Jeremiah 19:1. Thus said the LORD, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

Jeremiah 19:10. Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you,

Jeremiah 19:11. and shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Hosts says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

 

Wisdom 15:7. For a potter, kneading soft earth, laboriously molds each article for our service. He fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort, all in like manner. What shall be the use of each article of either sort, the potter is the judge.

Sirach 33:10. And all men are from the ground, And Adam was created of earth.

Sirach 33:13. As the clay of the potter in his hand, All his ways are according to his good pleasure; So men are in the hand of him that made them, To render to them according to his judgement.

 

Romans 9:21. Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

 

Unless otherwise noted, all Bible quotations on this page are from the World English Bible and the World Messianic Edition. These translations have no copyright restrictions. They are in the Public Domain.