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19 You will then say to me: “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”

20 But who are you, O man, to contradict God? Shall the thing formed say to Him Who formed it, “Why have you made me this way”?

21 Does not indeed the potter have authority over the clay to make, from the same lump, one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?

22 What if God – though willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known - endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

23 That in so doing, He might declare the riches of His glory upon the vessels of mercy, which He has prepared unto glory -

24 even we whom He has called - not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles.

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