9:18Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

9:19Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

9:20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

9:21Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

9:22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

9:23And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

9:24Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?