Romans 9:18-20
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18 Therefore, if God wants to be kind to anyone, he will be. If he wants to make someone stubborn, he will.
19 You may ask me, “Why does God still find fault with anyone? Who can resist whatever God wants to do?”
20 Who do you think you are to talk back to God like that? Can an object that was made say to its maker, “Why did you make me like this?”
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Romans 9:18-20
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18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(A)
19 One of you will say to me:(B) “Then why does God still blame us?(C) For who is able to resist his will?”(D) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(E) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(F) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](G)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
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