Romans 9:21

The Scriptures 1998

Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and another not for value?

Cross References

Proverbs 16:4

יהוה  has made all for His purpose, And also the wrong for the day of evil.

Isaiah 10:15

Would the axe boast itself over him who chops with it, or the saw exalt itself over him who saws with it? As a rod waving those who lift it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!

Isaiah 45:9

“Woe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand.

Jeremiah 22:28

“Is this man Konyahu a despised broken pot, or an undesirable vessel? Why are they hurled out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they do not know?

Hosea 8:8

“Yisra’ĕ

Acts 9:15

But the Master said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My Name before nations, sovereigns, and the children of Yisra’ĕ

Romans 9:11

Yet, before they were born or had done any good or evil – in order that the purpose of Elohim, according to choice, might stand, not of works but of Him who calls –

Romans 9:18

So, then, He favours whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”