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15 For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate.
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who is merciful.
17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same thing I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
18 So then he is merciful to whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.
19 Thou will say to me therefore, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose?
20 Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?
21 Or has the potter no right over the clay, from the same lump certainly to make this vessel for esteem, and that for disesteem?
22 And if God, wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 even that he might make known the wealth of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he previously prepared for glory,
24 namely us whom he called, not only from Jews but also from Gentiles.