Romans 9:21

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Or has the potter no right over the clay,  to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honour and another for dishonour?

Cross References

Isaiah 64:8

Yet Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we all are the work of your hands.

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has prepared everything for his purpose – even the wicked for the day of disaster.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, ‘Go, for this man is my chosen instrument   to take my name to Gentiles,   kings, and Israelites.

Romans 9:11

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand   –

Romans 9:18

So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot, a jar no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they have not known?

Isaiah 10:15

Does an axe exalt itself above the one who chops with it? Does a saw magnify itself above the one who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the ones who lift   it! It would be like a staff lifting the one who isn’t wood!

Isaiah 45:9

‘Woe to the one who argues with his Maker – one clay pot among many. Does clay say to the one forming it, “What are you making? ” Or does your work say, “He has no hands”?

Romans 9:20

On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?  Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this? ’