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Romans 9:23

Verse 23 of 33. The 9th of 16 chapters in Romans, in The Letters of Paul.

19You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

21Or 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?

22What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—

24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

25As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”

26“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”

27Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.