Romans 9
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Romans 9:20-24

20On the contrary, who are you, 12you foolish person, who 3answers back to God? 4The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?

21Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object 5for honorable use, and another 6for common use?

227What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great 8patience objects of wrath 9prepared for destruction?

23And He did so to make known 10the riches of His glory upon 11objects of mercy, which He 12prepared beforehand for glory,

24namely us, whom He also 13called, 14not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles,

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Notes

  1. 1. Romans 9:20 Lit O ↩
  2. 2. Romans 9:20 Rom 2:1 ↩
  3. 3. Romans 9:20 Job 33:13 ↩
  4. 4. Romans 9:20 Is 29:16; 45:9; 64:8; Jer 18:6; Rom 9:22f; 2 Tim 2:20 ↩
  5. 5. Romans 9:21 Lit for honor ↩
  6. 6. Romans 9:21 Lit for dishonor ↩
  7. 7. Romans 9:22 Lit But ↩
  8. 8. Romans 9:22 Rom 2:4 ↩
  9. 9. Romans 9:22 Prov 16:4; 1 Pet 2:8 ↩
  10. 10. Romans 9:23 Rom 2:4; Eph 3:16 ↩
  11. 11. Romans 9:23 Acts 9:15 ↩
  12. 12. Romans 9:23 Rom 8:29f ↩
  13. 13. Romans 9:24 Rom 8:28 ↩
  14. 14. Romans 9:24 Rom 3:29 ↩

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