Romans 9:15–24

¹⁵For He says to Moses, ^x“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” ¹⁶So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. ¹⁷For ^ythe Scripture says to the Pharaoh, ^z“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” ¹⁸Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He ^ahardens.

¹⁹You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For ^bwho has resisted His will?” ²⁰But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? ^cWill the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” ²¹Does not the ^dpotter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make ^eone vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

²²What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering ^fthe vessels of wrath ^gprepared for destruction, ²³and that He might make known ^hthe riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had ⁱprepared beforehand for glory, ²⁴even us whom He ^jcalled, ^knot of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?