Romans 9:21

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Doesn't a potter have the right to make a fancy bowl and a plain bowl out of the same lump of clay?”

Cross References

Proverbs 16:4

The LORD has a reason for everything he does, and he lets evil people live only to be punished.

Isaiah 10:15

King of Assyria, can an axe or a saw overpower the one who uses it? Can a wooden pole lift whoever holds it?

Isaiah 45:9

Israel, you have no right to argue with your Creator. You are merely a clay pot shaped by a potter. The clay doesn't ask, “Why did you make me this way? Where are the handles?”

Isaiah 64:8

You, LORD, are our Father. We are nothing but clay, but you are the potter who moulded us.

Jeremiah 22:28

Jehoiachin, you are unwanted like a broken clay pot. So you and your children will be thrown into a country you know nothing about.

Hosea 8:8

Israel, you are ruined, and now the nations consider you worthless.

Acts 9:15

The Lord said to Ananias, “Go! I have chosen him to tell foreigners, kings, and the people of Israel about me.

Romans 9:11

Even before they were born or had done anything good or bad, the Lord told Rebekah that her elder son would serve the younger one. The Lord said this to show that he makes his own choices and that it wasn't because of anything either of them had done.

Romans 9:18

Everything depends on what God decides to do, and he can either have pity on people or make them stubborn.

Romans 9:20

But, my friend, I ask, “Who do you think you are to question God? Does the clay have the right to ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did?