^{13 Ref} according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

^{14 Ref} What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness `is' with God? let it not be!

^{15 Ref} for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

^{16 Ref} so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

^{17 Ref} for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- `For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

^{18 Ref} so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

^{19 Ref} Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

^{20 Ref} nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus?

^{21 Ref} hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

^{22 Ref} And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

^{23 Ref} and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us --