Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay ¹  one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? ² 

“‘Observe – everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”

He also asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion ¹  and your frequent illnesses.) ² 

“Make ¹  two trumpets of silver; you are to make ²  them from a single hammered piece. ³  You will use them ⁴  for assembling the community and for directing the traveling of the camps.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; ¹  only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, ²  but through love serve one another. ³ 

All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses. ¹ 

I, the Lord, affirm ¹  that I am opposed to those prophets who are using their own tongues to declare, ‘The Lord declares….’ ² 

These are all destined to perish with use, founded as they are ¹  on human commands and teachings. ² 

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

You must use just balances, ¹  a just dry measure (an ephah), ²  and a just liquid measure (a bath). ³ 

You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” ¹  says the Lord God. ² 

Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, ¹  will be cut off from his people.”

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it ¹  of stones shaped with tools, ²  for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it. ³ 

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ¹  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ²  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. ¹ 

And we have different gifts ¹  according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

for the gold lampstands and their gold lamps, including the weight of each lampstand and its lamps, for the silver lampstands, including the weight of each lampstand and its lamps, according to the prescribed use of each lampstand,

A poor person makes supplications, ¹  but a rich man answers harshly. ² 

For the king of Babylon stands at the fork ¹  in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: ²  He shakes arrows, he consults idols, ³  he examines ⁴  animal livers. ⁵