Romans 9:20
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20 But who are you, O man, (A)to answer back to God? (B)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
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Isaiah 29:16
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16 (A)You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
Isaiah 45:9-11
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9 (A)“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
(B)Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
or ‘Your work has no handles’?
10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’
or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”
11 Thus says (C)the Lord,
the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him:
(D)“Ask me of things to come;
will you command me (E)concerning my children and (F)the work of my hands?[a]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:11 A slight emendation yields will you question me about my children, or command me concerning the work of my hands?
Isaiah 64:8
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8 (A)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
(B)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
(C)we are all the work of your hand.
Job 33:13
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Job 40:2
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2 “Shall a faultfinder (A)contend with the Almighty?
He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
Matthew 20:15
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15 (A)Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or (B)do you begrudge my generosity?’[a]
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- Matthew 20:15 Or is your eye bad because I am good?
Job 16:3
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3 Shall (A)windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
James 2:20
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20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
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1 Timothy 6:5
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5 and constant friction among people (A)who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, (B)imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
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1 Corinthians 1:20
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20 (A)Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? (B)Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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Job 42:2-6
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2 “I know that you can (A)do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 (B)‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
things (C)too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;
(D)I will question you, and you make it known to me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself,
and repent[a] in (E)dust and ashes.”
Footnotes
- Job 42:6 Or and am comforted
Job 40:8
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8 Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that (A)you may be in the right?
Job 36:23
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Titus 2:9
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9 (A)Bondservants[a] are to be submissive to their own masters (B)in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,
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- Titus 2:9 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Romans 2:1
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God's Righteous Judgment
2 Therefore you have (A)no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For (B)in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
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Micah 6:8
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8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and (A)what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,[a]
and to (B)walk humbly with your God?
Footnotes
- Micah 6:8 Or steadfast love
Job 40:5
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1 Corinthians 7:16
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16 For how do you know, wife, (A)whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
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