25 How would anything have endured unless you had willed it? Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been preserved? (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 11:25
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Lamentations 3:36–38
36 to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve. 37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it? 38 Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
2 Clement 1:7–8
7 For He had mercy on us, and in His compassion saved us, having beheld in us much error and perdition, even when we had no hope of salvation, save that which came from Him. (2CL) 8 For He called us, when we were not, and from not being He willed us to be. (2CL)
2 Baruch 28:5–7
5 Will he who is incorruptible despise those things which are corruptible, and whatever befalls in the case of those things which are corruptible, so that he might look only to those things which are not (2BA) 6 corruptible?] But if, O Lord, those things shall assuredly… (2BA)
2 Esdras 8:13–15
13 You put it to death as your creation, and make it live as your work. (WEB) 14 If therefore you lightly and suddenly destroy him which with so great labor was fashioned by your commandment, to what purpose was he made? (WEB) 15 Now therefore I will speak. About man in general, yo… (WEB)
1 Clement 27:4–6
4 By a word of His majesty He compacted the universe; and by a word He can destroy it. (1CL) 5 Who shall say unto Him, What hast thou done? or who shall resist the might of His strength? When He listeth, and as He listeth, He will do all things; and nothing shall pass a… (1CL)
2 Esdras 6:58–59
58 But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, your only children, and your fervent lover, are given into their hands. (WEB) 59 Now if the world is made for our sakes, why don’t we possess our world for an inheritance? How long will this endure?” (WEB)
Job 12:8–10
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? 10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
Romans 9:18–20
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden. 19 One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?” 20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say t…
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