"And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us in the beginning.

And God, the knower of hearts, bore witness to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as also [He did] to us,

and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Take what is yours and go. But I want to give to this last [man] the same as to you.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own [things]? Or is your eye evil because I am good?'

For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion."

So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God who shows mercy.

and so that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

even us whom He called, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles?

"For who has known [the] mind of the LORD? Or who has been His counselor?"

For of Him and through Him and to Him [are] all things; to Him be the glory forever! Amen.

Surely no one can forbid water, can he, that these should not be baptized who received the Holy Spirit just as we have?"

If He would take away, who shall turn Him back? Or who shall say to Him, What have You done?

Oh then that He would listen to me, or judge my cause.

But you say, Why has He not heard every word of my cause?

[ 39:32] Will [anyone] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? And he that reproves God, let him answer it.

[ 40:3] Do not set aside My judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous?

[ 40:4] Have you an arm like the Lord's? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and He does according to His will in the host of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand His power, and say to Him, What have You done?

But indeed, O man, who are you to [be] answering back against God? Surely the thing formed will not say to him who formed it, "Why did you made me like this?"

But what if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

even us whom He called, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles?

"And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' there they shall be called sons of the living God."