Romans 9:17-24

17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, aFor 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 bwho can resist his will?” 20But who are you, O man, cto answer back to God? dWill what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 eHas the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump fone 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 gvessels of wrath hprepared for destruction, 23in order to make known ithe riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he jhas prepared beforehand for glory 24even us whom he khas called, lnot from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
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