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You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?"

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

On the contrary, who are you, you foolish person, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object for honorable use, and another for common use?

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon objects of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

namely us, whom He also called, not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles,

Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?