“Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.” 

- Jeremiah 29:6

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“Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.”

- Jeremiah 29:5 ESV

"And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me. Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.”

- Mark 10:17-18, 21-22 ESV

“If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.”

- Jeremiah 18:7-10 ESV

“Then the word of the Lord came to me: “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.”

- Jeremiah 18:5-6

"Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.” 

- Jeremiah 18:2-4 ESV

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"The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”

- Jeremiah 18:1-2 ESV

“(At 12 years old) Jesus went down with them (his parents) and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them….And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.” 

- Luke 2:51-52 ESV

“Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.” 

- Jeremiah 1:8 ESV

“But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.”

- Jeremiah 1:7 ESV