Bible Verses about “vessels”
The Bible contains 29 verses about vessels across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”
“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.”
“For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,”
“that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,”
“not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;”
“But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.”
“If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.”
“But 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.”
“What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,”
“He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:”
“But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.”
“You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full."”
“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?”
“and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,”
“Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.”
“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.”
“Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."”
“Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil."”
“So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.”
“It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn't another container." The oil stopped flowing.”
“Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."”
“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,”
“"No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.”