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Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
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What will we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!
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For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
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So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
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For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth."
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So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
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You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"
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But no, man, who are you who replies against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"
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Or hasn`t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
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What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
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and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,