Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Bible References

The potter

Romans 9:11
for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,
Proverbs 16:4
Jehovah hath made everything for its own end; Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Jeremiah 18:3
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels.

One vessel

Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
Jeremiah 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?
Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.
Acts 9:15
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:
2 Timothy 2:20
Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor.

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