9:14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not! 9:15 For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” ⁸  9:16 So then, ⁹  it does not depend on human desire or exertion, ¹⁰  but on God who shows mercy. 9:17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh: ¹¹  “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.” ¹²  9:18 So then, ¹³  God ¹⁴  has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden. ¹⁵ 

9:19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?” 9:20 But who indeed are you – a mere human being ¹⁶  – to talk back to God? ¹⁷  Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?” ¹⁸  9:21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay ¹⁹  one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? ²⁰  9:22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects ²¹  of wrath ²²  prepared for destruction? ²³  9:23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects ²⁴  of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory – 9:24 even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?