Bible Verses about “vessels”

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”

“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

“For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”

“That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;”

“Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”

“But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.”

“If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, [and] prepared unto every good work.”

“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:›”

“[What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:”

“‹And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.›”

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”

“And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.”

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

“And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,”

“Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.”

“O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.”

“And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make [it].”

“¶ Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.”

“And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.”

“So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.”

“And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, [There is] not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.”

“Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.”

“Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.”

“Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.”

“Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,”

“But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.”

“¶ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,”

“‹No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth› [it] ‹under a bed; but setteth› [it] ‹on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.›”