Jeremiah 18

Treated in 11 passages across the library.

  • 18:4 If the pot he was shaping from the clay went wrong in the potter's hand, he would make it over into another pot, whatever seemed best to him. 4
  • 18:18 Then they said, "Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah. Instruction will never be lost to the priest, or counsel to the wise, or the word to the prophet. Come, let us attack him with words and pay no attention to anything he says." 3
  • 18:1 This message came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2
  • 18:2 "Get up and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words." 1
  • 18:3 So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was, working at the wheel. 1
  • 18:6 "House of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does? declares the LORD. As the clay is in the potter's hand, so you are in my hand, house of Israel. 1
  • 18:8 but that nation I have spoken against turns from its evil, then I will relent and not bring on it the disaster I had planned. 1
  • 18:12 But they will say, 'It is no use! We will follow our own plans; each of us will act in the stubbornness of our evil hearts.'" 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Selected Sermons of George Whitefield · George Whitefield

    The Potter and the Clay cites Jeremiah 18:1–6

    Jeremiah 18:1–6 — “The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise, and go down to the…

  2. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour · Dwight L. Moody

    November cites Jer. xviii. 4

    …of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Jer. xviii. 4. (R. V.) God's fairest, highest place of service in the land that lies beyond will be…

  3. The Key Teachings of Hannah Whitall Smith · Ochorus Originals

    God’s Side and Man’s Side cites JEREMIAH 18:4

    …the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. JEREMIAH 18:4 If you describe to a beginner what the clay must do to become a vessel, there is only one…

  4. The Key Teachings of Corrie ten Boom · Ochorus Originals

    All on the Altar cites JEREMIAH 18:4

    …the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. JEREMIAH 18:4 Surrender your limitations. She called feelings of inferiority a form of pride — a…

  5. The Bondage of the Will · Martin Luther

    Discussion: Part the Second cites Jeremiah xviii. 6

    …xlv. 9, “Shall the clay say to Him that fashioneth it, what makest Thou?” And that of Jeremiah xviii. 6, “Behold as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in Mine hand.” Here the Diatribe…

  6. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 17 — Use to Be Made of the Doctrine of Providence cites Jer. 18:8

    …to inflict on his people as soon as he shall have perceived some amendment in them (Jer. 18:8). Secondly, his decrees are sometimes said to be annulled. He had by Jonah proclaimed to…

  7. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    3.2 Degrees of Sin cites Jer 18: 12

    …the more of the will in a sin, the greater the sin. ‘We will walk after our own devices.’ Jer 18: 12. Though there be death and hell at every step, we will march on under Satan’s colours.…

  8. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Prefatory Address to King Francis cites Jer. 18:18

    …should perish from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or the word from the prophet? (Jer. 18:18). In opposition to the whole body of the prophets, Jeremiah is sent alone to declare from…

  9. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.9 The Ninth Commandment cites Jer 18: 18

    …calls slandering, smiting with the tongue. ‘Come, and let us smite him with the tongue.’ Jer 18: 18. You may smite another and never touch him. Majora sunt linguae vulnera quam gladii [The…

  10. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 9 — Of Councils and Their Authority cites Jer. 18:18

    …not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet” (Jer. 18:18). 6. Hence it is easy to reply to their allegation concerning general councils. It cannot…

  11. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    May cites Jer 18:1-4

    …its method has hardly differed through the ages. Jeremiah as well as Isaiah refers to it (Jer 18:1-4). While the prophet was standing watching the potter, he saw him take a piece of…