Romans 9:20

Catholic Public Domain Version

O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: "Why have you made me this way?"

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:10

And the king said: "What is it to me and to all of you, O sons of Zeruiah? Permit him, so that he may curse. For the Lord has commanded him to curse David. And who is the one who would dare to say, 'Why has he done so?' "

Job 16:3

Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?

Job 33:13

Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?

Job 36:23

Who is able to investigate his ways? And who can say, "You have done iniquity," to him?

Job 40:2

Gird your waist like a man. I will question you, and you must answer me.

Job 40:5

Envelop yourself with splendor, and raise yourself up on high, and be glorious, and put on splendid garments.

Job 40:8

Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.

Job 9:32

For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.

Isaiah 10:15

Should the axe glorify itself over him who wields it? Or can the saw exalt itself over him who pulls it? How can a rod lift itself up against him who wields it, or a staff exalt itself, though it is only wood?

Isaiah 29:16

This intention of yours is perverse. It is as if the clay were to plan against the potter, or as if the work were to say to its maker: "You did not make me." Or it is as if what has been formed were to say to the one who formed it, "You do not understand."

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O Lord, you are our Father, yet truly, we are clay. And you are our Maker, and we are all the works of your hands.

Jeremiah 18:6

"Am I not able to do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done, says the Lord? Behold, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Micah 6:8

I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.

Matthew 20:15

And is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Or is your eye wicked because I am good?'

Luke 12:14

But he said to him, "Man, who has appointed me as judge or arbitrator over you?"

Romans 14:4

Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand.

Romans 2:1

For this reason, O man, each one of you who judges is inexcusable. For by that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things that you judge.

Romans 2:3

But, O man, when you judge those who do such things as you yourself also do, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?

Romans 9:21

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?

Romans 9:22

What if God, wanting to reveal his wrath and to make his power known, endured, with much patience, vessels deserving wrath, fit to be destroyed,

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where are the wise? Where are the scribes? Where are the truth-seekers of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of this world into foolishness?

1 Corinthians 7:16

And how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

1 Timothy 6:5

the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety.

2 Timothy 2:20

But, in a large house, there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also those of wood and of clay; and certainly some are held in honor, but others in dishonor.

Titus 2:9

Exhort servants to be submissive to their masters, in all things pleasing, not contradicting,

James 2:20

So then, are you willing to understand, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?