^{20 Ref} But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

^{21 Ref} Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

^{22 Ref} What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

^{23 Ref} And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

^{24 Ref} Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

^{25 Ref} As he says in Hosea, They will be named my people who were not my people, and she will be loved who was not loved.

^{26 Ref} And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.