Romans 9:19-29 - God's Anger And Mercy
19 Perhaps you will say to me-'How can any one still be blamed? For who withstands his purpose?' 20 I might rather ask 'Who are you who are arguing with God?' Does a thing which a man has molded say to him who has molded it 'Why did you make me like this?' 21 Has not the potter absolute power over his clay, so that out of the same lump he makes one thing for better, and another for common, use? 22 And what if God, intending to reveal his displeasure and make his power known, bore most patiently with the objects of his displeasure, though they were fit only to be destroyed, 23 So as to make known his surpassing glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared beforehand for glory, 24 And whom he called-even us-Not only from among the Jews but from among the Gentiles also! 25 This, indeed, is what he says in the Book of Hosea-'I will call those my People who were not my People, and her my beloved who was not beloved.
26 And in the very place where it was said to them-"Ye are not my People", they shall be called Sons of the Living God.'
27 And Isaiah cries aloud over Israel-'Though the Sons of Israel are like the sand of the sea in number, only a remnant of them shall escape! 28 For the Lord will execute his sentence upon the world, fully and without delay.'
29 It is as Isaiah foretold-'Had not the Lord of Hosts spared some few of our race to us, we should have become like Sodom and been made to resemble Gomorrah.'