16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Sovereignty of God

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

• 1Cor 1:20 — Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
• 1Tim 6:5 — Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
• 2Sam 16:10 — And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
• Acts 11:17 — Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
• Eccl 8:4 — Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
• Ezek 18:2 — What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
• Gen 2:7 — And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Isa 10:15 — Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the
• 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 45:9 — Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
• Isa 45:9 — Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
• Isa 64:8 — But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
• Isa 64:8 — But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
• Jas 4:12 — There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
• Jer 18:4 — And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
• Jer 18:6 — O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
• Job 1:22 — In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
• Job 4:17 — Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
• Job 9:32 — For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
• Job 16:3 — Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
• Job 16:21 — O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
• Job 33:13 — Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
• Job 34:23 — For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
• Job 36:23 — Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
• Job 38:2 — Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
• Job 40:2 — Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
• Job 40:8 — Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
• Job 42:2 — I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
• Luke 12:14 — And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
• Mal 3:13 — Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
• Matt 20:15 — Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
• Mic 6:8 — He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
• Rom 2:1 — Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
• Rom 14:4 — Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
• Zech 2:13 — Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.