Romans 9:17-23

17For the Scripture tells Pharaoh, I raised you up for this reason so that I may display my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in the whole earth.

18So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

19You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does he still find fault? For who resists his will?”

20On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

21Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

22And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

23And what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory on objects of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory  —