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15 For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”
16 So then, it is not of him who wills nor of him who strives, but of God who shows mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 So then, He has mercy on whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes.
19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has ever resisted His will?”
20 Really now, just who are you, O man, to talk back to God? What is formed will not say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
21 Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22 What if God, wishing to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 just in order to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,