^15 (A)Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or ^(B)is your eye evil because I am good?’

¹⁵ For He says to Moses, ^(A)“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” ¹⁶ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. ¹⁷ For ^(B)the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, ^(C)“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” ¹⁸ Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He ^(D)hardens.

¹⁹ You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For ^(E)who has resisted His will?” ²⁰ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? ^(F)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” ²¹ Does not the ^(G)potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make ^(H)one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

²² What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering ^(I)the vessels of wrath ^(J)prepared for destruction, ²³ and that He might make known ^(K)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had ^(L)prepared beforehand for glory, ²⁴ even us whom He ^(M)called, ^(N)not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

⁹ Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your ^(A)eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and ^(B)he cry out to the Lord against you, and ^(C)it become sin among you.