Romans 9:15-23

15For He says to Moses, “1I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I show compassion.” 16So then, it does not depend on the person who 2wants it nor the one who 34runs, but on 5God who has mercy. 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “6For this very reason I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed 7throughout the earth.” 18So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He 8hardens whom He desires.

199You will say to me then, “10Why does He still find fault? For 11who has resisted His will?” 20On the contrary, who are you, 1213you foolish person, who 14answers back to God? 15The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object 16for honorable use, and another 17for common use? 2218What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great 19patience objects of wrath 20prepared for destruction? 23And He did so to make known 21the riches of His glory upon 22objects of mercy, which He 23prepared beforehand for glory,