20. Rather, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
21. Does the potter not have power over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22. What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23. in order to make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He previously prepared for glory,
24. even us, whom He has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
25. As indeed He says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’and her who was not beloved, ‘Beloved,’ ”
26. and, “In the place where it was said to them,‘You are not My people,’there they shall be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ”
27. Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the children of Israel be like the sand of the sea,a remnant shall be saved.
28. For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness,because the Lord will make a quick work upon the earth.”