21. Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for an ignoble one?
22. What if God, wishing to show his wrath and make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction?
23. This was to make known the riches of his glory to the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared previously for glory,
24. namely, us whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles.
25. As indeed he says in Hosea:“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’
26. And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’there they shall be called children of the living God.”
27. And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the Israelites were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved;