15. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16. So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that has mercy.
17. For the scripture saith of Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18. Therefore he has mercy on whom he will have mercy, and he hardens whom he will.
19. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why does he become angry? For who shall resist his will?
20. Rather, O man, who art thou to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21. Has 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, desiring to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much meekness the vessels of wrath, prepared for death,
23. and making known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared unto glory?
24. Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles!
25. As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved.