Romans 9:19-21

God's Sovereign Choice

19 You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For z who can resist his will?" 20 But who are you, O man, a to answer back to God? b Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?" 21 c Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump d one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 20:6
    And said, "O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
    Job 9:12
    Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?
    Daniel 4:35
    All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?
  2. Cross References
    Job 33:13
    Why do you contend against him, saying, 'He will answer none of man's words'?
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:16
    You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?
    Isaiah 45:9
    Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 64:8
    But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
    Jeremiah 18:6
    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.
  5. Cross References
    2 Timothy 2:20
    Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.
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