Legacy Standard Bible

Romans 9:17-18

17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “aFor this very purpose I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and in order that My name might be proclaimed 1throughout the whole earth.” 18So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He ahardens whom He desires.

Romans 9:21-22

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,