RYLT(i)
11 (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --
12 'The greater shall serve the less;'
13 according as it has been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'
14 What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness is with God? let it not be!
15 for to Moses He says, 'I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'
16 so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:
17 for the Writing says to Pharaoh -- 'For this very thing I did raise you up, that I might show in you My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'
18 so, then, to whom He wills, He does kindness, and to whom He wills, He does harden.
19 You will say, then, to me, 'Why yet does He find fault? for His counsel who has resisted?'
20 nay, but, O man, who are you that are answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form it, Why me did you make thus?
21 has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?
22 And if God, willing to show the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --