But if our unrighteousness causes God's plan of justifying men to be better known, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, who inflicts punishment? I speak as a man.

Has not the potter power over the clay, to make from the same mass one vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

One man thinks that one day is better than another; another thinks that every day is alike. Let each be fully assured in his own mind.