Romans 9:14-23

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14 ^aWhat shall we say then? ^bIs there any unrighteousness with God? ^cMay it never be! 15 For He says to Moses, “^aI will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it does not depend on the one who wills or the one who ^aruns, but on ^bGod who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “^aFor this very purpose I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and in order that My name might be proclaimed ¹throughout the whole earth.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He ^ahardens whom He desires.
19 ^aYou will say to me then, “^bWhy does He still find fault? For ^cwho resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, ^aO man, who ^banswers back to God? ^cWill the thing molded say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this”? 21 Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel ¹for honorable use and another ²for dishonorable use? 22 And ¹what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much ^apatience vessels of wrath ^bhaving been prepared for destruction, 23 and in order that He might make known ^athe riches of His glory upon ^bvessels of mercy, which He ^cprepared beforehand for glory—

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