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13 as it is written: Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with. God? It can not be.
15 For he says to Moses: I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy; and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.
16 Therefore, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.
17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose have I raised you up, that I may show in you my power, and that my name may be published in all the earth.
18 Therefore, he has mercy on whom he wills to have mercy: and whom he wills to harden, he hardens.
19 You will then say to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20 No, but rather, O man, who are you that dispute with God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed, it, Why have you made me thus?
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, to make from the same mass one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
22 What, then, if God, intending to show his wrath, and to make his power known, yet, in much long-suffering bore with the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction:
23 and, that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he before prepared for glory, showed mercy to us,