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Romans 9:19

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

KJV

Ἐρεῖς μοι οὖν, τί ἔτι μέμφεται; τῷ γὰρ βουλήματι αὐτοῦ τίς ἀνθέστηκεν;

Greek NT

Dicis itaque mihi : Quid adhuc queritur ? voluntati enim ejus quis resistit ?

Vulgate

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βούλημα
boulema
noun · 3×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
μέμφομαι
memphomai
verb · 2×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀνθίστημι
anthistemi
verb · 14×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐρέω
ereo
verb · 96×
ἔτι
eti
adverb · 94×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: μοι οὖν | WH/Treg/NIV: μοι οὖν | RP: οὖν μοι
  • μοι οὖνSBLGNT
  • μοι οὖνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • οὖν μοιRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
trivial
SBLGNT: οὖν | NIV: οὖν
  • οὖνSBLGNT
  • οὖνReader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

24. But He had not been thus worshipped, nor been thus spoken of, were He a creature merely. But now since He is not a creature, but the proper offspring of the Essence of that God who is worshipped, and His Son by nature, therefore He is worshipped and is believed to be God, and is Lord of armies, and in authority, and Almighty, as the Father is; for He has said Himself, 'All …
29. For if the power of framing accrues to anyone from teaching, these insensate men are ascribing jealousy and weakness to God — jealousy, in that He has not taught many how to frame, so that there may be around Him, as Archangels and Angels many, so framers many; and weakness, in that He could not make by Himself, but needed a fellow-worker, or under-worker; and that, though …
Is there will in God? Does God will things apart from Himself? Does God necessarily will whatever He wills? Is the will of God the cause of things? Can any cause be assigned to the divine will? Is the divine will always fulfilled? Is the will of God mutable? Does the will of God impose necessity on the things willed? Is there in God the will of evil? Does God have free will? Is…
Providence, then, is the care that God takes over existing things. And again: Providence is the will of God through which all existing things receive their fitting issue. But if Providence is God's will, according to true reasoning all things that come into being through Providence must necessarily be both most fair and most excellent, and such that they cannot be surpassed. Fo…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:12 — Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
  • 1Cor 15:35 — But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
  • 1Cor 15:35 — But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
  • 2Chr 20:6 — And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withs
  • Dan 4:35 — And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto h
  • Dan 4:35 — And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto h
  • Eccl 6:10 — That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
  • Eccl 7:13 — Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
  • Ezek 16:63 — That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Gen 50:20 — But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
  • Isa 10:6 — I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the street
  • Isa 29:16 — Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He ha
  • Isa 46:10 — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
  • Jas 1:13 — Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
  • Job 9:12 — Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
  • Job 9:19 — If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
  • Job 23:13 — But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
  • Job 23:13 — But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
  • Job 40:2 — Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
  • Mark 14:21 — The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
  • Ps 76:10 — Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
  • Ps 115:3 — But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
  • Rom 3:7 — For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?