¹⁷ If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?”^(A)

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

²⁰ But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”^{(A) 21} Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use?^{(B) 22} What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction,^{(C) 23} and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— ²⁴ including us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the gentiles? ²⁵ As he also says in Hosea,

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

¹⁵ For he says to Moses,

¹⁶ So it depends not on human will or exertion but on God who shows mercy.

⁸ And God, who knows the human heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us,^{(A) 9} and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.^(B)

¹⁵ And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.^(A)