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13 As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Certainly not!
15 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
16 So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.
17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I may show my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."
18 Therefore he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens the heart of whom he wills.
19 You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"
20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"
21 Does not the potter have right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22 What if God, choosing 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 for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory,