Romans 9:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

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King 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?

Romans 9:21 Cross References

Proverbs 16:4

The LORD hath made every thing for its own end: Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if a rod should shake them that lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood.

Isaiah 45:9

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel:

Romans 9:11

for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,

Romans 9:18

So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth.

Romans 9:20

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?