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Romans 9:19-21
Contemporary English Version
Romans 9:19-21
Contemporary English Version
God's Anger and Mercy
19 Someone may ask, “How can God blame us, if he makes us behave in the way he wants us to?” 20 (A) But, my friend, I ask, “Who do you think you are to question God? Does the clay have the right to ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did? 21 (B) Doesn't a potter have the right to make a fancy bowl and a plain bowl out of the same lump of clay?”
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Romans 9:19-21
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Romans 9:19-21
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19 One of you will say to me:(A) “Then why does God still blame us?(B) For who is able to resist his will?”(C) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(D) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(E) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](F) 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(G)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
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