For You are our Father; for [though] Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do You, O Lord, our Father, deliver us; Your name has been upon us from the beginning.

And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is My firstborn.

Do you thus recompense the Lord? O foolish and unwise people. Did not He Himself, your Father, purchase you, and make you, and form you?

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Shall you not be counted as clay of the potter? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, You did not form me? Or the work to the maker, You have not made me wisely?

What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? Shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? Shall the thing formed answer Him that formed it?

Jeremiah, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there you shall hear My words.

And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell [apart.] So he made it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him.

O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? Behold, as the clay [is in] the potter's[hand], so are you in My hands.

But indeed, O man, who are you to [be] answering back against God? Surely the thing formed will not say to him who formed it, "Why did you made me like this?"

But what if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

even us whom He called, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles?

[even] all who are called by My name; for I have prepared him for My glory, and I have formed him, and have made him;

Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel; for you are My servant; I have formed you [to be] My servant; and do not forget Me, O Israel.

Thus says the Lord that redeems you, and who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord that performs all things; I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards You changed Your mind, and struck me.

Remember that You have made me as clay, and You turn me again into dust.

Know that the Lord, He is God; He made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Your hands have made me, and fashioned me; instruct me, that I may learn Your commandments.

O Lord, You shall recompense [them] on my behalf: Your mercy, O Lord, [endures] forever: do not overlook the works of Your hands.

For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.