Romans 9:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:10

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

Job 16:3

Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’?

Job 36:23

Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

Job 40:5

I have spoken once, and I will not answer, twice but will proceed no further.”

Job 40:8

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?

Job 9:32

For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it? As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up, or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 29:16

You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay? Shall the thing made say of its maker, “He did not make me,” or the thing formed say of the one who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

Isaiah 64:8

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

Jeremiah 18:6

Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? says the Lord. Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?

Matthew 20:15

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Luke 12:14

But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?”

Romans 14:4

Who are you to pass judgment on slaves of another? It is before their own lord that they stand or fall. And they will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

Romans 2:1

Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others, for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.

Romans 2:3

Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?

Romans 9:21

Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use?

Romans 9:22

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction,

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

1 Corinthians 7:16

Wife, for all you know, you might save your husband. Husband, for all you know, you might save your wife.

1 Timothy 6:5

and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

2 Timothy 2:20

In a large house there are utensils not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for special use, some for ordinary.

Titus 2:9

Urge slaves to be submissive to their masters in everything, to be pleasing, not talking back,

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is worthless?