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?
Parallel translations
- KJV Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
- BSB Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
- NKJV Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
- NASB Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object for honorable use, and another for common use?
- NLT When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?
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- Isa 64:8But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.
- 2 Tim 2:20–21Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.
- Prov 16:4Yahweh has made everything for its own end — yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
- Jer 18:3–6Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels.
- Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
- Rom 9:22–23What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
- Rom 9:11For 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 who calls,
- Rom 9:18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
- Hos 8:8Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
- Jer 22:28Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?
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