17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[a](A) 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(B)

19 One of you will say to me:(C) “Then why does God still blame us?(D) For who is able to resist his will?”(E) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(F) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(G) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[b](H)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:17 Exodus 9:16
  2. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9

17 For 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.

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

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

20 Nay 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?

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