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!