Romans 9:21 KJV — MannaFest

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

KJV

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ASV

Or 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?

WEB

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Romans — Paul's gospel set out in order. Four great movements: sin, salvation, sanctification, sovereignty — closing with sustained calls to service and unity.

Author: Paul the apostle, dictated to Tertius (Rom 16:22)
Date: c. AD 57, from Corinth before the Jerusalem offering

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2 Timothy 2:20
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Proverbs 16:4
The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Jeremiah 18:3–6
Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
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:

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The potter, out of the same lump, may make either a fashionable vessel, and a vessel fit for creditable and honourable uses, or a contemptible vessel, and a vessel in which is no pleasure; and herein he acts arbitrarily, as he might have chosen whether he would make any vessel of it at all, or whether he would leave it in the hole of the pit, out of which it was dug.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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