¹⁹ You will say to me,^(A) therefore, “Why then does he still find fault?^(B) For who resists his will?” ^{(C) 20} On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?^(D) Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” ^{(E) 21} Or has the potter no right over the clay,^(F) to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? ²² And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience^(G) objects of wrath prepared for destruction?^{(H) 23} And what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory^(I) on objects of mercy^(J) that he prepared beforehand for glory^(K)— ²⁴ on us, the ones he also called,^(L) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?^(M)