Romans 9:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

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  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. 21 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
  • Prov 16:4 : 4 The LORD has made all things for Himself: yes, even the wicked for the day of disaster.
  • Rom 9:11 : 11 For the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him who calls;
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
  • Rom 9:22-23 : 22 What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction: 23 And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
  • Jer 18:3-6 : 3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was working on the wheels. 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 6 O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
  • Jer 22:28 : 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? Is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they know not?
  • Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

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  • Rom 9:14-20
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    14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

    15For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

    16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

    17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth.

    18Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

    19You will say then to me, Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?

    20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?

  • Jer 18:2-7
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    2Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.

    3Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was working on the wheels.

    4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

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

    6O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

    7At any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

  • Rom 9:22-23
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    22What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction:

    23And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

  • Isa 29:16
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    16Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay; for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

  • Isa 45:9-10
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    9Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him who forms it, What are you making? or shall your work say, He has no hands?

    10Woe to him who says to his father, What are you begetting? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?

  • 2 Tim 2:20-21
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    20But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

    21Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • Isa 64:8
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    8But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

  • Job 10:8-9
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    8Your hands have made and fashioned me together all around; yet You destroy me.

    9Remember, I beseech You, that You have made me as the clay; and will You bring me into dust again?

  • Isa 30:14
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    14And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the pit.

  • Jer 16:20
    68%

    20Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not of us.

  • Job 4:17
    68%

    17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

  • Isa 44:10
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    10Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing?

  • Acts 7:50
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    50Has not my hand made all these things?

  • Job 31:15
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    15Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

  • Job 33:6
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    6Behold, I am in your place before God; I also am formed out of clay.

  • Isa 40:18
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    18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

  • Job 38:14
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    14It is changed like clay under the seal; and they stand out like a garment.

  • Ps 2:9
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    9You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

  • Rom 14:4
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    4Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he will be upheld, for God is able to make him stand.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
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    7For who makes you different from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

  • Rom 9:11
    65%

    11For the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him who calls;

  • Isa 41:24-25
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    24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooses you.

    25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

  • 1 Cor 1:28
    65%

    28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are:

  • Job 4:19
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    19How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

  • Prov 27:21
    65%

    21As the refining pot tests silver, and the furnace tests gold, so a man is tested by his praise.

  • Isa 54:16
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    16Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

  • Job 9:4
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    4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against Him and succeeded?

  • Jer 22:28
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    28Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? Is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they know not?

  • Lam 4:2
    64%

    2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they regarded as clay pots, the work of the hands of the potter!