¹⁷ If then ^(A)God gave ^(B)the same gift to them as he gave to us ^(C)when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, ^(D)who was I ^(E)that I could stand in God's way?”

^47 (A)“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit ^(B)just as we have?”

²⁰ But who are you, O man, ^(A)to answer back to God? ^(B)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” ^21 (C)Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump ^(D)one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? ²² What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience ^(E)vessels of wrath ^(F)prepared for destruction, ²³ in order to make known ^(G)the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he ^(H)has prepared beforehand for glory— ²⁴ even us whom he ^(I)has called, ^(J)not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵ As indeed he says in Hosea,

³⁶ For ^(D)from him and through him and to him are all things. ^(E)To him be glory forever. Amen.

¹⁵ For he says to Moses, ^(A)“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” ¹⁶ So then it depends not on human will or exertion,^[a] but on God, who has mercy.