Romans 9:19
Good News Translation
But one of you will say to me, "If this is so, how can God find fault with anyone? Who can resist God's will?"

New Revised Standard Version
You will say to me then, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”

Contemporary English Version
Someone may ask, "How can God blame us, if he makes us behave in the way he wants us to?"

New American Bible
You will say to me then, “Why [then] does he still find fault? For who can oppose his will?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will?

Thou.

Romans 3:8 And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.

1 Corinthians 15:12,35 Now if Christ be preached, that he arose again from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? . . .

James 1:13 Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man.

Why doth.

Romans 3:5-7 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath? . . .

Genesis 50:20 You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

2 Chronicles 20:6 And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and power, and no one can resist thee.

Job 9:12-15,19 If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so? . . .

Job 23:13,14 For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done. . . .

Psalm 76:10 For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

Isaiah 10:6,7 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. . . .

Isaiah 46:10,11 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: . . .

Daniel 4:35 0

Mark 14:21 And the Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born.

Acts 2:23 This same being delivered up, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

Acts 4:27,28 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, . . .

Context
The Calling of the Gentiles
18Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he hardeneth. 19Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will? 20O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:6
And said: O Lord God of our fathers, thou art God in heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms and nations, in thy hand is strength and power, and no one can resist thee.

Job 9:12
If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?

Isaiah 29:16
This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest not.

Daniel 4:35


Romans 3:7
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

Romans 11:19
Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

1 Corinthians 15:35
But some man will say: How do the dead rise again? Or with what manner of body shall they come?

James 2:18
But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.

Romans 9:18
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