Romans 9:14-23

New King James Version

Israel’s Rejection and God’s Justice

¹⁴ What shall we say then? ^(A)Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! ¹⁵ For He says to Moses, ^(B)“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” ¹⁶ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. ¹⁷ For ^(C)the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, ^(D)“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.” ¹⁸ Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He ^(E)hardens.

¹⁹ You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For ^(F)who has resisted His will?” ²⁰ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? ^(G)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” ²¹ Does not the ^(H)potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make ^(I)one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

²² What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering ^(J)the vessels of wrath ^(K)prepared for destruction, ²³ and that He might make known ^(L)the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had ^(M)prepared beforehand for glory,