Romans 9:21

World English Bible (2000)

Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

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  • Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, Yahweh, 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 my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor. 21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.
  • Prov 16:4 : 4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end-- yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
  • Rom 9:11 : 11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
  • Rom 9:22-23 : 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
  • Jer 18:3-6 : 3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was making a work on the wheels. 4 When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 6 House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
  • Jer 22:28 : 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?
  • Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

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    14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

    15For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

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

    17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

    18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

    19You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"

    20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make 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 making a work on the wheels.

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

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

    6House of Israel, can't I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

    7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break 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 vessels of wrath made for destruction,

    23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

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    16You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, "He didn't make me;" or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding?"

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    9Woe to him who strives with his Maker-- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'

    10Woe to him who says to a father, 'What have you become the father of?' or to a mother, 'To what have you given birth?'"

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    20Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

    21If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

  • Isa 64:8
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    8But now, Yahweh, 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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    8"'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

    9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

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    14He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

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    20Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

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    7But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

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

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    10Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

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    15Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion us in the womb?

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    6Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

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    18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

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    14It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

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    9You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

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    4Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

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    7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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    11For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

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    24Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

    25"I have raised up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun, one who calls on my name; and he shall come on rulers as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay.

  • 1 Cor 1:28
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    28and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

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    19How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

  • Prov 27:21
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    21The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise.

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    16"Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

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    4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

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    28Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which none delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they don't know?

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    2The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!