Romans 9:21
is not the potter the master of his own clay, of the same mass to make one vessel for use and ornament, and another for a meaner purpose?
Acts 9:15
go, said the Lord to him: for he is the instrument I have chosen, to bear my name to the Gentiles, to kings, and to the children of Israel.
Romans 9:11
for before they were born, and had done neither good or evil, that the distinction which God had purposed to make might appear to be, not in consideration of their actions, but of his own free call,
Romans 9:18
thus some he pursues with his favours, and abandons others to their obduracy, according as he thinks fit.
Romans 9:22-23
if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,
2 Timothy 2:20-21
in a palace there are vessels not only of gold, and of silver, but of wood and of earth likewise: some are for honourable uses, and others for meaner purposes.