The Potter and the Called

19You will say to me then, “Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his purpose?”

20But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

21Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

22But what if God, wanting to display his wrath and make known his power, endured with great patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

23and in order to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

24even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles—