18. Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will; and whom he will, he hardeneth.
19. Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? for who resisteth his will?
20. 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?
21. Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22. What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,