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?

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—

The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose—
even the wicked for the day of disaster.

Yet Lord, You are our Father;
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
we all are the work of Your hands.

So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.

And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?

Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered pot,
a jar no one wants?
Why are he and his descendants hurled out
and cast into a land they have not known?

Israel is swallowed up!
Now they are among the nations
like discarded pottery.

But the Lord said to him, “Go! For this man is My chosen instrument to take My name to Gentiles, kings, and the Israelites.

Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver bowls, but also those of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.