19One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?"


In Context

16 It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.

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 blame us? For who resists 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 out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

Romans 9:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:19Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:19Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? for who resisteth his will?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:19Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:19Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:19Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:19Thou wilt say then to me, Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:19You will say then to me, |Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:19Thou wilt say, then, to me, 'Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:19You will say then to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?