A moment in scripture
Romans 9:21
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Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
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The surrounding passage
- Romans 9:19
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
- Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
- Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
- Romans 9:23
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.