Haweis(i)
15 For he saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
16 Well then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God who sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith to Pharaoh, "That for this very end have I raised thee up, that I might display in thee my power, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."
18 Well then, he hath mercy on whom he will, but whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Wilt thou then say to me, Why yet doth he blame us? Who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that disputest against God? Shall the thing fashioned say to him that fashioned it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, from the same mass to make one vessel for an honourable use, and another for a dishonourable?
22 But what if God, willing to display his wrath, and to make known what is possible with him, hath borne with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for perdition:
23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he had before prepared for glory:
24 even us, whom he hath called, not only out of the Jews, but out of the Gentiles?