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Jeremiah 18:1

Jeremiah 18:1 (NLT)
The LORD gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,

Jeremiah 18:2

Jeremiah 18:2 (NLT)
“Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.”

Jeremiah 18:3

Jeremiah 18:3 (NLT)
So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel.

Jeremiah 18:4

Jeremiah 18:4 (NLT)
But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.

Jeremiah 18:5

Jeremiah 18:5 (NLT)
Then the LORD gave me this message:

Jeremiah 18:6

Jeremiah 18:6 (NLT)
“OIsrael, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.

Luke 2:52

Luke 2:52 (NLT)
Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all the people.

Acts 7:57

Acts 7:57 (NLT)
Then they put their hands over their ears and began shouting. They rushed at him

Acts 7:58

Acts 7:58 (NLT)
and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. His accusers took off their coats and laid them at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 7:1

Acts 7:1 (NLT)
Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these accusations true?”

Acts 7:2

Acts 7:2 (NLT)
This was Stephen’s reply: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Mesopotamia before he settled in Haran.

Acts 7:3

Acts 7:3 (NLT)
God told him, ‘Leave your native land and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you.’

Acts 7:4

Acts 7:4 (NLT)
So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran until his father died. Then God brought him here to the land where you now live.

Acts 7:5

Acts 7:5 (NLT)
“But God gave him no inheritance here, not even one square foot of land. God did promise, however, that eventually the whole land would belong to Abraham and his descendants—even though he had no children yet.

Acts 7:6

Acts 7:6 (NLT)
God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land, where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400years.

Acts 6:7

Acts 6:7 (NLT)
So God’s message continued to spread. The number of believers greatly increased in Jerusalem, and many of the Jewish priests were converted, too.

Acts 6:10

Acts 6:10 (NLT)
None of them could stand against the wisdom and the Spirit with which Stephen spoke.

Acts 6:11

Acts 6:11 (NLT)
So they persuaded some men to lie about Stephen, saying, “We heard him blaspheme Moses, and even God.”

Acts 6:12

Acts 6:12 (NLT)
This roused the people, the elders, and the teachers of religious law. So they arrested Stephen and brought him before the high council.

Acts 6:13

Acts 6:13 (NLT)
The lying witnesses said, “This man is always speaking against the holy Temple and against the law of Moses.

Acts 6:14

Acts 6:14 (NLT)
We have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the Temple and change the customs Moses handed down to us.”

Acts 6:15

Acts 6:15 (NLT)
At this point everyone in the high council stared at Stephen, because his face became as bright as an angel’s.

Acts 6:2

Acts 6:2 (NLT)
So the Twelve called a meeting of all the believers. They said, “We apostles should spend our time teaching the word of God, not running a food program.

Acts 6:4

Acts 6:4 (NLT)
Then we apostles can spend our time in prayer and teaching the word.”

Acts 6:6

Acts 6:6 (NLT)
These seven were presented to the apostles, who prayed for them as they laid their hands on them.