21. Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
22. What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared unto glory,
24. Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25. As he says also in Hosea,
26. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them,
27. Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28. For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29. And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of hosts had left us a descendant, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.
30. What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.