Romans 9:15–24

¹⁵For He says to Moses, “^aI will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

¹⁶So then it does not depend on the one who wills or the one who ^aruns, but on ^bGod who has mercy.

¹⁷For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “^aFor this very purpose I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and in order that My name might be proclaimed ¹throughout the whole earth.”

¹⁸So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He ^ahardens whom He desires.

^19aYou will say to me then, “^bWhy does He still find fault? For ^cwho resists His will?”

²⁰On the contrary, who are you, ^aO man, who ^banswers back to God? ^cWill the thing molded say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this”?

²¹Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel ¹for honorable use and another ²for dishonorable use?

²²And ¹what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much ^apatience vessels of wrath ^bhaving been prepared for destruction,

²³and in order that He might make known ^athe riches of His glory upon ^bvessels of mercy, which He ^cprepared beforehand for glory—

²⁴even us, whom He also ^acalled, ^bnot from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles?