Romans 9:21

New Century Version

The potter can make anything he wants to make. He can use the same clay to make one thing for special use and another thing for daily use.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord makes everything go as he pleases. He has even prepared a day of disaster for evil people.

Isaiah 10:15

An ax is not better than the person who swings it. A saw is not better than the one who uses it. A stick cannot control the person who picks it up. A club cannot pick up the person!

Isaiah 45:9

“How terrible it will be for those who argue with the God who made them. They are like a piece of broken pottery among many pieces. The clay does not ask the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ The thing that is made doesn’t say to its maker, ‘You have no hands.’

Isaiah 64:8

But Lord, you are our father. We are like clay, and you are the potter; your hands made us all.

Jeremiah 22:28

Jehoiachin is like a broken pot someone threw away; he is like something no one wants. Why will Jehoiachin and his children be thrown out and sent into a foreign land?

Hosea 8:8

Israel is eaten up; the people are mixed among the other nations and have become useless to me.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! I have chosen Saul for an important work. He must tell about me to those who are not Jews, to kings, and to the people of Israel.

Romans 9:11

But before the two boys were born, God told Rebekah, “The older will serve the younger.” This was before the boys had done anything good or bad. God said this so that the one chosen would be chosen because of God’s own plan. He was chosen because he was the one God wanted to call, not because of anything he did.

Romans 9:18

So God shows mercy where he wants to show mercy, and he makes stubborn the people he wants to make stubborn.

Romans 9:20

You are only human, and human beings have no right to question God. An object should not ask the person who made it, “Why did you make me like this?”