Romans 9:21

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Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 64:8 : 8 Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said to him,“Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.
  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use. 21 So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
  • Prov 16:4 : 4 The LORD has worked everything for his own ends– even the wicked for the day of disaster.
  • Rom 9:11 : 11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.
  • Rom 9:22-23 : 22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–
  • Jer 18:3-6 : 3 So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel. 4 Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit. 5 Then the LORD’s message came to me, 6 “I, the LORD, say:‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’
  • Jer 22:28 : 28 This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away. He will be like a clay vessel that no one wants. Why will he and his children be forced into exile? Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about?
  • Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 9:14-20
    7 verses
    84%

    14What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

    15For he says to Moses:“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

    16So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

    17For the scripture says to Pharaoh:“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”

    18So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

    19You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

    20But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”

  • Jer 18:2-7
    6 verses
    83%

    2“Go down at once to the potter’s house. I will speak to you further there.”

    3So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel.

    4Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

    5Then the LORD’s message came to me,

    6“I, the LORD, say:‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’

    7There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.

  • Rom 9:22-23
    2 verses
    79%

    22But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

    23And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–

  • Isa 29:16
    78%

    16Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?

  • Isa 45:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”

    10Danger awaits one who says to his father,“What in the world are you fathering?” and to his mother,“What in the world are you bringing forth?”

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

    20Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use.

    21So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • Isa 64:8
    73%

    8Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

  • Job 10:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

    9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

  • Isa 30:14
    68%

    14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”

  • Jer 16:20
    68%

    20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

  • 2 Cor 4:7
    68%

    7An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

  • Job 4:17
    68%

    17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

  • Isa 44:10
    68%

    10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

  • Acts 7:50
    67%

    50Did my hand not make all these things?’

  • Job 31:15
    67%

    15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

  • Job 33:6
    67%

    6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

  • Isa 40:18
    67%

    18To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

  • Job 38:14
    66%

    14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

  • Ps 2:9
    66%

    9You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

  • Rom 14:4
    66%

    4Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
    65%

    7For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

  • Rom 9:11
    65%

    11even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–

  • Isa 41:24-25
    2 verses
    65%

    24Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent; the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.

    25I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

  • 1 Cor 1:28
    65%

    28God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

  • Job 4:19
    65%

    19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

  • Prov 27:21
    65%

    21As the crucible is for silver and the furnace is for gold, so a person must put his praise to the test.

  • Isa 54:16
    64%

    16Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.

  • Job 9:4
    64%

    4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?

  • Jer 22:28
    64%

    28This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away. He will be like a clay vessel that no one wants. Why will he and his children be forced into exile? Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about?

  • Lam 4:2
    64%

    2ב(Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold– Alas!– but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.