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 ⁴  – to talk back to God? ⁵  Does what is molded say to the molder, “Why have you made me like this?” ⁶  9:21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay ⁷  one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? ⁸  9:22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects ⁹  of wrath ¹⁰  prepared for destruction? ¹¹  9:23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects ¹²  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? 9:25 As he also says in Hosea:

“I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved, ¹³  ‘My beloved.’” ¹⁴ 

9:26 “And in the very place ¹⁵  where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” ¹⁶