¹⁹ Therefore you will say to me, “Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted^[a] his will? ²⁰ On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded it, “Why did you make me like this”?^{[b] 21} Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump a vessel that is for honorable use^[c] and one that is for ordinary use^[d]? ²² And what if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? ²³ And he did so^[e] in order that he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory, ²⁴ us whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?