American Standard Version
"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? "
— Romans 9:21, American Standard Version
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”
“Or 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?”
“Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?”
“Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?”
“Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?”
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”
So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?
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?
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,
even us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?