Jeremiah 18:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

People of Israel, I, the Lord, have power over you, just as a potter has power over clay.

Cross References

Isaiah 64:8

You, Lord, are our Father. We are nothing but clay, but you are the potter who molded us.

Isaiah 45:9

Israel, you have no right to argue with your Creator. You are merely a clay pot shaped by a potter. The clay doesn't ask, “Why did you make me this way? Where are the handles?”

Jeremiah 18:4

And whenever the clay would not take the shape he wanted, he would change his mind and form it into some other shape.

Matthew 20:15

Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Why should you be jealous, if I want to be generous?”

Daniel 4:23

Then you saw a holy angel come down from heaven and say, “Chop down the tree and destroy it! But leave its stump and roots in the ground, fastened there by a chain of iron and bronze. Let it stay for seven years out in the field with the wild animals, unprotected from the dew.”

Romans 11:34

“Has anyone known the thoughts of the Lord or given him advice?

Jeremiah 18:5

Then the Lord told me to say: