Romans 9:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?””
A short, plain-language explanation of Romans 9:19 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 9:19 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 50:20As 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 20:6and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.
- Job 9:12If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Job 9:19If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
- Job 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
- Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
- Isaiah 10:6I 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 46:10I 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.’
- Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Mark 14:21The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
- Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
- Acts 4:27In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
- Romans 3:5But 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 11:19You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:12But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
- 1 Corinthians 15:35But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
- James 1:13When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone.
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