Romans 9:17-23 (King James Version)

 ¹⁷For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

 ¹⁸Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

 ¹⁹Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

 ²⁰Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

 ²¹Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

 ²²What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

 ²³And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,