Romans 9:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 64:8 : 8 And now, O Jehovah, thou `art' our Father, We `are' the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel;
  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour: 21 if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,
  • Prov 16:4 : 4 All things hath Jehovah wrought for Himself, And also the wicked `worketh' for a day of evil.
  • Rom 9:11 : 11 (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --
  • Rom 9:18 : 18 so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.
  • Rom 9:22-23 : 22 And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --
  • Jer 18:3-6 : 3 and I go down `to' the potter's house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones, 4 and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make. 5 And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying: 6 As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So `are' ye in My hand, O house of Israel.
  • Jer 22:28 : 28 A grief -- a despised broken thing -- is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?
  • Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.

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  • Rom 9:14-20
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    14What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness `is' with God? let it not be!

    15for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

    16so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

    17for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- `For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

    18so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

    19Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

    20nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus?

  • Jer 18:2-7
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    2Rise, and thou hast gone down `to' the potter's house, and there I cause thee to hear My words;

    3and I go down `to' the potter's house, and lo, he is doing a work on the stones,

    4and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.

    5And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying:

    6As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So `are' ye in My hand, O house of Israel.

    7The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,

  • Rom 9:22-23
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    22And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

    23and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --

  • Isa 29:16
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    16Your perversion! as clay is the potter esteemed? That the work saith of its maker, `He hath not made me?' And the framed thing said of its framer, `He did not understand?'

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    9Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'

    10Wo `to' him who is saying to a father, `What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, `What dost thou bring forth?

  • 2 Tim 2:20-21
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    20And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:

    21if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

  • Isa 64:8
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    8And now, O Jehovah, thou `art' our Father, We `are' the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.

  • Job 10:8-9
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    8Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

    9Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.

  • Isa 30:14
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    14And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.

  • Jer 16:20
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    20Doth man make for himself gods, And they -- no gods?

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

  • Job 4:17
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    17`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

  • Isa 44:10
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    10Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out -- not profitable?

  • Acts 7:50
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    50hath 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? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

  • Job 33:6
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    6Lo, I `am', according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

  • Isa 40:18
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    18And unto whom do ye liken God, And what likeness do ye compare to Him?

  • Job 38:14
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    14It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.

  • Ps 2:9
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    9Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

  • Rom 14:4
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    4Thou -- who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
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    7for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

  • Rom 9:11
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    11(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

  • Isa 41:24-25
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    24Lo, ye `are' of nothing, and your work of nought, An abomination -- it fixeth on you.

    25I have stirred up `one' from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in `on' prefects as `on' clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire.

  • 1 Cor 1:28
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    28and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --

  • Job 4:19
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    19Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation `is' in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)

  • Prov 27:21
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    21A refining pot `is' for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.

  • Isa 54:16
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    16Lo, I -- I have prepared an artizan, Blowing on a fire of coals, And bringing out an instrument for his work, And I have prepared a destroyer to destroy.

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    4Wise in heart and strong in power -- Who hath hardened toward Him and is at peace?

  • Jer 22:28
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    28A grief -- a despised broken thing -- is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?

  • Lam 4:2
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    2The precious sons of Zion, Who are comparable with fine gold, How have they been reckoned earthen bottles, Work of the hands of a potter.