(for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),

Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

Jehovah has made all things for a witness; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

But now, O Jehovah, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the One who forms us; and we all are the work of Your hand.

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was fashioning an object on the wheel.

Then the Word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

What if God, determining to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath rendered fit unto destruction,

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

Is this man Coniah a despised and broken vessel? Is he an object in which there is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they do not know?

Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel unto Me to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from these, he will be a vessel unto honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.