Worrell(i)
15 For He saith to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomsoever I have mercy; and I will have compassion on whomsoever I have compassion."
16 So, then, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God Who hath mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose did I raise you up, that I might show forth My power in you, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."
18 So, then, He hath mercy on whom He willeth, and whom He willeth He hardeneth.
19 You will say to me, then, "Why doth He still find fault? for who has withstood His will?"
20 Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God ? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, "Why didst Thou make me thus?"
21 Or has not the potter a right over the clay, out of the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
22 And what if God, willing to show forth His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;
23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us,
24 whom He also called, not from Jews only, but also from gentiles?