Romans 9:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:10

And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Let him go on cursing, for the Lord has said, Put a curse on David, and who then may say, Why have you done so?

Job 16:3

May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?

Job 33:13

Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

Job 36:23

Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

Job 40:2

Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.

Job 40:5

I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.

Job 40:8

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

Job 9:32

For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

Isaiah 10:15

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

Isaiah 29:16

You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 18:6

O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

Daniel 4:35

And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

Micah 6:8

He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

Matthew 20:15

Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?

Luke 12:14

But he said, Man, who made me a judge or a maker of decisions for you?

Romans 14:4

Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

Romans 2:1

So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

Romans 2:3

But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

Romans 9:21

Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

Romans 9:22

What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 7:16

For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?

1 Timothy 6:5

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

2 Timothy 2:20

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.

Titus 2:9

Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;

James 2:20

Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?