Romans 9:21 Cross References
Romans 9:21
21: When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn't he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?
Isaiah 64:8
- And yet, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We are all formed by your hand.
2 Timothy 2:20
- In a wealthy home some utensils are made of gold and silver, and some are made of wood and clay. The expensive utensils are used for special occasions, and the cheap ones are for everyday use.
- If you keep yourself pure, you will be a utensil God can use for his purpose. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work.
Acts 9:15
- But the Lord said, "Go and do what I say. For Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel.
Jeremiah 18:3
- So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel.
- But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so the potter squashed the jar into a lump of clay and started again.
- Then the LORD gave me this message:
- "O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand.
Romans 9:22
- God has every right to exercise his judgment and his power, but he also has the right to be very patient with those who are the objects of his judgment and are fit only for destruction.
- He also has the right to pour out the riches of his glory upon those he prepared to be the objects of his mercy--
Romans 9:18
- So you see, God shows mercy to some just because he wants to, and he chooses to make some people refuse to listen.
Romans 9:11
- But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message proves that God chooses according to his own plan,
Proverbs 16:4
- The LORD has made everything for his own purposes, even the wicked for punishment.
Hosea 8:8
- The people of Israel have been swallowed up; they lie among the nations like an old pot that no one wants.
Jeremiah 22:28
- "Why is this man Jehoiachin like a discarded, broken dish? Why are he and his children to be exiled to distant lands?