Romans 9:20-25

English Standard Version

²⁰ But who are you, O man, ^(A)to answer back to God? ^(B)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” ^21 (C)Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump ^(D)one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? ²² What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience ^(E)vessels of wrath ^(F)prepared for destruction, ²³ in order to make known ^(G)the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he ^(H)has prepared beforehand for glory— ²⁴ even us whom he ^(I)has called, ^(J)not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵ As indeed he says in Hosea,