18. So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19. Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?
20. Aye, but thou, O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21. Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?
22. And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;
23. and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,
24. us, whom he has also called, not only from amongst the Jews, but also from amongst the nations?
25. As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.