Romans 9:20

Revised Standard Version

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?”

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

Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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, ‘Thou hast done wrong’?

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Job 40:5

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I 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 man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

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 29:16

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

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 18:6

“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? says the Lord. Behold, 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 according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What doest thou?”

Micah 6:8

He has showed you, O man, 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 do you begrudge my generosity?’

Luke 12:14

But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or divider over you?”

Romans 14:4

Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Master is able to make him stand.

Romans 2:1

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.

Romans 2:3

Do you suppose, O man, 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 vessel for beauty and another for menial use?

Romans 9:22

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

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

1 Corinthians 7:16

Wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Husband, how do you know whether you will save your wife?

1 Timothy 6:5

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

2 Timothy 2:20

In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and earthenware, and some for noble use, some for ignoble.

Titus 2:9

Bid slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to be refractory,

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?