Bible Verses about “clay”
The Bible contains 43 verses about clay across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.”
“For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.”
“"Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."”
“My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.”
“Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.”
“Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
“Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”
“Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?”
“But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.”
“You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.”
“Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?”
“You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.”
“But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"”
“"'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.”
“What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,”
“But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.”
“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?”
“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?'”
“House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.”
“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.”
“Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”
“Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels.”
“Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,”
“Now 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.”
“The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,”
“Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?”
“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?"”
“At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;”
“if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.”
“At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;”
“if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.”
“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.”
“But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.”
“Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.”
“For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;”
“to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.”
“I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.”
“Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
“Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.”
“Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.”
“Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.”
“Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.”
“Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.”