Romans 9:14–29

¹⁴What shall we say then? ^wIs there injustice on God’s part? By no means! ¹⁵For he says to Moses, ^x“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” ¹⁶So then it depends not on human will or exertion,² but on God, who has mercy. ¹⁷For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ^y“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” ¹⁸So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

¹⁹You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For ^zwho can resist his will?” ²⁰But who are you, O man, ^ato answer back to God? ^bWill what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” ^21cHas the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump ^done vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? ²²What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience ^evessels of wrath ^fprepared for destruction, ²³in order to make known ^gthe riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he ^hhas prepared beforehand for glory— ²⁴even us whom he ⁱhas called, ^jnot from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵As indeed he says in Hosea,

^k“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’

and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’ ”

^26l“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ^m‘sons of the living God.’ ”

²⁷And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: ⁿ“Though the number of the sons of Israel³ be as the sand of the sea, ^oonly a remnant of them will be saved, ²⁸for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” ²⁹And as Isaiah predicted,

^pq“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,

^rwe would have been like Sodom

and become like Gomorrah.”