Romans:9:13-23
nkjv@Romans:9:13 @ As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated."
nkjv@Romans:9:14 @ What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
nkjv@Romans:9:15 @ For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."
nkjv@Romans:9:16 @ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
nkjv@Romans:9:17 @ For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth."
nkjv@Romans:9:18 @ Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.
nkjv@Romans:9:19 @ You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?"
nkjv@Romans:9:20 @ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?"
nkjv@Romans:9:21 @ Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
nkjv@Romans:9:22 @ What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
nkjv@Romans:9:23 @ and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,