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17 The Scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you to your position for the very purpose of displaying my power in dealing with you, and making my name known all over the world."
18 So he has mercy on anyone he pleases, and hardens the heart of anyone he pleases.
19 "Why, then," you will ask, "does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"
20 On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?"
21 Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones?
22 Then what if God, though he wanted to display his anger and show his power, has shown great patience toward the objects of his anger, already ripe for destruction,
23 so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory,