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Romans 9:14-26 What shall we say them? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!

For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have  compassion."

So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

So then he has mercy upon whomever he wills, and he hardens the heart of whomever he wills.

You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?

But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me thus?

Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use?

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction,

in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory,

even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

As indeed he says in Ho-se'a, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people.' and her who was not beloved I will call 'my beloved.'"

"And in every place where it said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"