The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
Romans 9:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same mass (lump) one vessel for beauty and distinction and honorable use, and another for menial or ignoble and dishonorable use? American Standard Version (1901) Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? Common English Bible Doesn’t the potter have the power over the clay to make one pot for special purposes and another for garbage from the same lump of clay? Catholic Public Domain Version And does not the potter have the authority over the clay to make, from the same material, indeed, one vessel unto honor, yet truly another unto disgrace? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? |
The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it? As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up, or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!
Woe to those who strive with their Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”? or “Your work has no handles”?
Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Is this man Coniah a despised broken pot, a vessel no one wants? Why are he and his offspring hurled out and cast away in a land that they do not know?
Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel;
even before they had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose of election might continue,
So then he has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses.
But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”