¹⁶ It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.^(A)

²² What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience^(A) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?^{(B) 23} What if he did this to make the riches of his glory^(C) known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory^(D)— ²⁴ even us, whom he also called,^(E) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?^{(F) 25} As he says in Hosea: