Romans 9:20
But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
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Romans 9:20
But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
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Romans 9:14
What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.
Romans 9:15
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
Romans 9:16
So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.
Romans 9:17
For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.
Romans 9:18
So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
Romans 9:19
But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?
Romans 9:20
But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
Romans 9:21
Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?
Romans 9:22
What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:
Romans 9:23
And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
Exodus 4:21
And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go.
Joshua 11:20
For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.
Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.
Exodus 11:10
All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
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Isaiah 45:9
Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
Isaiah 45:10
Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?
Isaiah 45:11
The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?
Jeremiah 18:4
And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah 18:5
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jeremiah 18:6
O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.
Isaiah 29:16
You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
Isaiah 10:15
Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
Job 10:9
O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
Job 33:6
See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.
Jeremiah 19:11
And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter's bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till there is no more room.
Jeremiah 51:21
With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;
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Job 33:12
Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.
Job 33:13
Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
Job 9:12
If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?
Job 40:8
Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?
Daniel 4:35
And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
Matthew 20:15
Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
Acts 11:17
If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?
2 Samuel 16:10
And the king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Let him go on cursing, for the Lord has said, Put a curse on David, and who then may say, Why have you done so?
Job 9:4
He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
Job 34:23
For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.
Ecclesiastes 8:4
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
Luke 10:21
In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
Acts 2:23
Him, when he was given up, by the decision and knowledge of God, you put to death on the cross, by the hands of evil men:
Ephesians 1:11
In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
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Job 40:2
Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.
Ecclesiastes 6:10
That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.
Job 9:32
For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
Job 9:33
There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.
Job 40:4
Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.
Job 40:5
I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.
Job 9:3
If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.
Job 23:3
If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
Job 23:4
I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
Job 23:5
I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.
Job 23:6
Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
Job 23:7
There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
Job 16:21
So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
Job 31:35
If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
Jeremiah 49:19
See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?
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Romans 9:24
Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?
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Romans 2:1
So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.
Romans 2:3
But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?
Romans 14:4
Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.
Luke 12:14
But he said, Man, who made me a judge or a maker of decisions for you?
James 4:12
There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge?
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Romans 3:4
In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.
Romans 3:5
But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?
Job 34:10
Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.
Job 34:11
For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.
Job 34:12
Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.
Job 34:17
How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?
Job 34:18
He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;
Job 34:19
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
Job 35:2
Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
Ezekiel 18:25
But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?
Genesis 18:25
Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?
Job 1:22
In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.
Job 36:23
Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?
Romans 2:5
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
Romans 3:7
But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?
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Romans 10:18
But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
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James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:
James 1:14
But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.
James 1:15
Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
James 1:16
Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
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Zechariah 2:13
Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.
Psalms 46:10
Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.
Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.
Zephaniah 1:7
Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.
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1 Corinthians 7:16
For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?
James 2:20
Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
Micah 6:8
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
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Luke 11:28
But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
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Romans 3:19
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
Job 38:2
Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
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Romans 10:19
But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry.
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Romans 11:33
O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
Romans 11:34
Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?
Romans 11:35
Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?
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1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
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