Romans 9:14-23 (New International Version)
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What then shall we say?1 Is God unjust? Not at all!2
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For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."a3
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It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.4
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."b5
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Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.6
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One of you will say to me:7 "Then why does God still blame us?8 For who resists his will?"9
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But who are you, O man, to talk back to God?10 "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it,11 'Why did you make me like this?' "c12
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Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?13
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What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience14 the objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction?15
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What if he did this to make the riches of his glory16 known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory17--
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