ABU(i)
11 (for they being not yet born, nor having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls),
12 it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written: Jacob I loved, But Esau I hated.
14 What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Far be it!
15 For he says to Moses: I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomsoever I have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy,
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: Even for this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show forth my power in thee, and that my name might be declared in all the earth.
18 So that, on whom he will he has mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 Thou wilt say then to me: Why then does he yet find fault? For who resists his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it: Why didst thou make me thus?
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
22 And what if God, willing to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory;