¹⁷ If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

⁴⁷ "Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"

¹⁴ Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

¹⁵ Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

³⁴ "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"

³⁵ "Or who has first given to him, And it will be repaid to him again?"

³⁶ For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

²⁰ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

²¹ Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

²² What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

²³ and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

²⁴ us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

²⁵ As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; And her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

²⁶ "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

¹⁵ For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

¹⁶ So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

⁸ God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

⁹ He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

¹⁵ As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.

⁴⁵ They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

³⁹ But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"

³⁵ All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell him, What do you?

⁸ Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

⁹ Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

² "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

¹³ Why do you strive against him, Because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

¹² Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

¹³ "God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him?