Romans 9:17-20

New International Version

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)