Romans 9:19-29 - God's Anger And Mercy
19 "Why, then," you will ask, "does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?" 20 On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?" 21 Has not the potter with his clay the right to make from the same lump one thing for exalted uses and another for menial ones? 22 Then what if God, though he wanted to display his anger and show his power, has shown great patience toward the objects of his anger, already ripe for destruction, 23 so as to show all the wealth of his glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he has prepared from the beginning to share his glory, 24 including us whom he has called not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen? 25 Just as he says in Hosea, "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, And her who was not beloved, my beloved,
26 And in the very place where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' They shall be called sons of the living God."
27 And Isaiah cries out about Israel, "Although the sons of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, 28 for the Lord will execute his sentence rigorously and swiftly on the earth."
29 As Isaiah foretold, "If the Lord of Hosts had not left us children, We would have been like Sodom, and have resembled Gomorrah!"