Romans 9:21

New International Version

Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

Cross References

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a day of disaster.

Isaiah 10:15

Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it? As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up, or a club brandish the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 45:9

“Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?

Isaiah 64:8

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

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Jehoiachin a despised, broken pot, an object no one wants? Why will he and his children be hurled out, cast into a land they do not know?

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like something no one wants.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.

Romans 9:11

Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:

Romans 9:18

Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ”