Romans 9:19

God's Anger And Mercy

¹⁸ So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden. ¹⁹ You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?” ²⁰ But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Jew

2 Chronicles 20:6

He said:

Yahweh, the God of our ancestors, 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.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing,
and He does what He wants with the army of heaven
and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can hold back His hand
or say to Him, “What have You done?”

1 Corinthians 15:35

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”

Genesis 50:20

You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result—the survival of many people.

Job 9:12-15

If He snatches something, who can stop Him?
Who can ask Him, “What are You doing?”

Job 9:19

If it is a matter of strength, look, He is the Mighty One!
If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

Job 23:13-14

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

Psalm 76:10

Even human wrath will praise You;
You will clothe Yourself
with their remaining wrath.

Isaiah 10:6-7

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

Isaiah 46:10-11

I declare the end from the beginning,
and from long ago what is not yet done,
saying: My plan will take place,
and I will do all My will.

Mark 14:21

For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

Acts 2:23

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

Acts 4:27-28

“For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,

Romans 3:5-8

But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I use a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?

Romans 11:19

Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

1 Corinthians 15:12

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”?

James 1:13

No one undergoing a trial should say, “I am being tempted by God.” For God is not tempted by evil, and He Himself doesn’t tempt anyone.