Romans 9:17-23

¹⁷For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

¹⁸Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

¹⁹One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

²⁰But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

²¹Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

²²What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

²³What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory —

— Romans 9:17-23

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Cross References for Romans 9:17-23

• Exodus 9:16
• Proverbs 16:4
• Isaiah 64:8
• Isaiah 29:16
• Isaiah 45:9-11
• Jude 1:4
• 2 Timothy 2:20-21
• Exodus 4:21
• 1 Peter 2:8
• Daniel 4:35

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