Romans 9:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:
  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour. 21 If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.
  • Prov 16:4 : 4 The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.
  • Rom 9:11 : 11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
  • Rom 9:22-23 : 22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction: 23 And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
  • Jer 18:3-6 : 3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and he was doing his work on the stones. 4 And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 6 O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.
  • Jer 22:28 : 28 Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?
  • Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Rom 9:14-20
    7 verses
    84%

    14 What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

    15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

    16 So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

    17 For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.

    18 So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

    19 But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

    20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

  • Jer 18:2-7
    6 verses
    83%

    2 Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.

    3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and he was doing his work on the stones.

    4 And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

    5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    6 O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

    7 Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;

  • Rom 9:22-23
    2 verses
    79%

    22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

    23 And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

  • Isa 29:16
    78%

    16 You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

  • Isa 45:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

    10 Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

  • 2 Tim 2:20-21
    2 verses
    75%

    20 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.

    21 If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

  • Isa 64:8
    73%

    8 Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

  • Job 10:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

    9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

  • Isa 30:14
    68%

    14 And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

  • Jer 16:20
    68%

    20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

  • 2 Cor 4:7
    68%

    7 But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

  • Job 4:17
    68%

    17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • Isa 44:10
    68%

    10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

  • Acts 7:50
    67%

    50 Did not my hand make all these things?

  • Job 31:15
    67%

    15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

  • Job 33:6
    67%

    6 See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

  • Isa 40:18
    67%

    18 Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

  • Job 38:14
    66%

    14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

  • Ps 2:9
    66%

    9 They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

  • Rom 14:4
    66%

    4 Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
    65%

    7 For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?

  • Rom 9:11
    65%

    11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

  • Isa 41:24-25
    2 verses
    65%

    24 But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

    25 I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.

  • 1 Cor 1:28
    65%

    28 And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

  • Job 4:19
    65%

    19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

  • Prov 27:21
    65%

    21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

  • Isa 54:16
    64%

    16 See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.

  • Job 9:4
    64%

    4 He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

  • Jer 22:28
    64%

    28 Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?

  • Lam 4:2
    64%

    2 The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!