Romans 9:15-23

15For He says to Moses, “1I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who 2runs, but on 3God who has mercy. 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “4For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed 5throughout the whole earth.” 18So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He 6hardens whom He desires.

197You will say to me then, “8Why does He still find fault? For 9who resists His will?” 20On the contrary, who are you, 10O man, who 11answers back to God? 12The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel 13for honorable use and another 14for common use? 2215What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much 16patience vessels of wrath 17prepared for destruction? 23And He did so to make known 18the riches of His glory upon 19vessels of mercy, which He 20prepared beforehand for glory,