⁴ Or do you show contempt for the riches^(A) of his kindness,^(B) forbearance^(C) and patience,^(D) not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?^(E)

⁵ But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath^(F), when his righteous judgment^(G) will be revealed. ⁶ God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”^{[a](H) 7} To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor^(I) and immortality,^(J) he will give eternal life.^{(K) 8} But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,^(L) there will be wrath and anger.^{(M) 9} There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil:^(N) first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;^{(O) 10} but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.^{(P) 11} For God does not show favoritism.^(Q)

¹⁹ One of you will say to me:^(A) “Then why does God still blame us?^(B) For who is able to resist his will?”^{(C) 20} But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?^(D) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,^(E) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”^{[a](F) 21} Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?^(G)

²² What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience^(H) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?^{(I) 23} What if he did this to make the riches of his glory^(J) known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory^(K)— ²⁴ even us, whom he also called,^(L) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?^{(M) 25} As he says in Hosea:

²⁶ and,

²⁷ Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

²⁹ It is just as Isaiah said previously: