Bible verse
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
Romans 9:21 · BSB
The verses around it, from Romans 9.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
19 One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
22 What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
23 What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
24 including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
25 As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
KJV
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
ASV
Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
ERV
Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
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