^{20 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

^{24 Ref} us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

^{25 Ref} 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 Ref} "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.'"