1 Samuel 21:5
21:5 David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’
equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
Acts 9:15
9:15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument
to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.
Romans 9:21-23
9:21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay
one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?
9:22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects
of wrath
prepared for destruction?
9:23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects
of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory –
Romans 9:2
9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
Romans 2:20-21
2:20 an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –
2:21 therefore
you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
Romans 2:1
The Condemnation of the Moralist
2:1 Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else. For on whatever grounds you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.
Romans 3:7
3:7 For if by my lie the truth of God enhances
his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?