18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He (A)hardens.

19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For (B)who has resisted His will?” 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? (C)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”

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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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Footnotes

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