Romans 9:18-22
Read Romans 9 in full →18So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He ahardens whom He desires.
19aYou will say to me then, “bWhy does He still find fault? For cwho resists His will?” 20On the contrary, who are you, aO man, who banswers back to God? cWill the thing molded say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this”? 21Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel 1for honorable use and another 2for dishonorable use? 22And 1what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much apatience vessels of wrath bhaving been prepared for destruction,