²¹ Does not the ^(A)potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make ^(B)one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

²⁰ But in a great house there are not only ^(A)vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. ²¹ Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, ^[a]sanctified and useful for the Master, ^(B)prepared for every good work.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, “Go, for ^(A)he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before ^(B)Gentiles, ^(C)kings, and the ^(D)children^[a] of Israel.

²² What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering ^(A)the vessels of wrath ^(B)prepared for destruction, ²³ and that He might make known ^(C)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had ^(D)prepared beforehand for glory,

¹⁸ Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He ^(A)hardens.

¹¹ (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of ^(A)Him who calls),

³ Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the ^[a]wheel. ⁴ And the vessel that he ^[b]made of clay was ^[c]marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.

⁵ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ⁶ “O house of Israel, ^(A)can I not do with you as this potter?” says the Lord. “Look, ^(B)as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!