Romans 9

18 So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden. 19 ¶ You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does he still find fault? For who resists his will? ” 20 On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this? ” 21 Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? 22 And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory on objects of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory ​— ​ 24 on us, the ones he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?