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19 You will then say to me: “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”

20 But who are you, O man, to contradict God? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, “Why have you made me this way”?

21 Does not indeed the potter have authority over the clay to make, from the same lump, one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?

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19 One of you will say to me:(A) “Then why does God still blame us?(B) For who is able to resist his will?”(C) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(D) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(E) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](F) 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9