Riverside(i)
13 In the same way it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness on God's part? Never.
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 then it is not a question of the man who wills or who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I raised you up in order to show my power upon you and to have my name proclaimed in all the earth."
18 So then he has mercy on whom he chooses and he hardens whom he chooses.
19 You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who has opposed his will?"
20 But who are you, O man, who are answering back to God? Does the thing that is moulded say to the moulder, "Why have you made me so?"
21 Has not the potter the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22 What if God, choosing to exhibit his wrath and to make known what he can do, bore in long patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction,
23 and in order to make known the richness of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he had prepared for glory