Romans 9:15–24

¹⁵for to Moses He saith, ‘I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;’ ¹⁶so, then—not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness: ¹⁷for the Writing saith to Pharaoh—‘For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;’ ¹⁸so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden. ¹⁹Thou wilt say, then, to me, ‘Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?’ ²⁰nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me didst thou make thus? ²¹hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour? ²²And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, ²³and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call—us— ²⁴not only out of Jews, but also out of nations.