18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He (A)hardens whom He desires.

19 (B)You will say to me then, “(C)Why does He still find fault? For (D)who has resisted His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, [a](E)you foolish person, who (F)answers back to God? (G)The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?

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  1. Romans 9:20 Lit O

18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(A)

19 One of you will say to me:(B) “Then why does God still blame us?(C) For who is able to resist his will?”(D) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(E) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(F) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](G)

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  1. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9