21Does 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?


In Context

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?

22 What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction?

23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory--

Romans 9:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:21Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:21Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:21Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:21Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:21Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?