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katapi HOME Romans 9:19-29 - God's Wrath and Mercy  Ro.9.19-29

9 19 You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?" 9 20 [ Is.29.16, Is.45.9. ] But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me thus?" 9 21 [ Jr.18.6. ] Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use? 9 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction, 9 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory, 9 24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? 9 25 [ Hs.2.23. ] As indeed he says in Hosea,

"Those who were not my people
I will call 'my people,'
and her who was not beloved
I will call 'my beloved.' "
9 26 [ Hs.1.10. ] "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,'
they will be called 'sons of the living God.' "
9 27 [ Is.10.22-23. ] And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
"Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
only a remnant of them will be saved;
9 28 for the Lord will execute his sentence upon the earth with rigor and dispatch."
9 29 [ Is.1.9. ] And as Isaiah predicted,