Romans 9:21

Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

In Context

20Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?

22And if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

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Cross References

Isaiah 64:8But now, O LORD, thou are our Father. We are the clay, and thou our potter, and we are all the work of thy hand.

Jeremiah 22:28Is 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 know not?

Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, Go, because this man is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before Gentiles and kings, and sons of Israel.

Romans 9:18So then he is merciful to whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.

2 Timothy 2:20Now in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen, and some for esteem and some for disesteem.

Matthew Henry on Romans 9:15-25

The Divine Sovereignty. ( a. d. 58.) 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the… Read the whole commentary →

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