45:009:013 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
45:009:014 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
45:009:015 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
45:009:016 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
45:009:017 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
45:009:018 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom
he will he hardeneth.
45:009:019 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For
who hath resisted his will?
45:009:020 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?
45:009:021 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
45:009:022 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: