11. (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth)
12. It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.
15. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16. So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
17. For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18. Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19. Thou wilt say then to me, Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will?
20. No, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21. Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor?
22. What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering 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 for glory,
24. Even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.
25. As he saith also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who were not my people; and her Beloved, who was not beloved.
26. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called, The children of the living God.