Romans 9:19

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Romans 9:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

18 Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

19 One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

21 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?

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1 Corinthians 15:35

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James 1:13

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Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

Romans 3:6

Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world?

Romans 3:7

However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

Genesis 50:20

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

2 Chronicles 20:6

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Job 9:12

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

Job 9:13

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Job 9:14

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

Job 9:15

For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

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Job 23:13

But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

Job 23:14

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Psalms 76:10

Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Isaiah 10:7

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

Isaiah 46:10

I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

Isaiah 46:11

I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.

Daniel 4:35

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Mark 14:21

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Acts 2:23

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Acts 4:27

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Acts 4:28

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.