Romans 9:21

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use?

Cross References

Proverbs 16:4

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

Isaiah 45:9

“Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.

Jeremiah 22:28

Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land which they do not know?

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

Romans 9:11

though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call,

Romans 9:18

So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me thus?”