Romans 9:16-29 CSB

So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy. [17] For the Scripture tells Pharaoh, I raised you up for this reason so that I may display my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in the whole earth. [18] So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden. [19] You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does he still find fault? For who resists his will?” [20] On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” [21] Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? [22] And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction? [23] And what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory on objects of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory— [24] on us, the ones he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? [25] As it also says in Hosea, I will call Not My People, My People, and she who is Unloved, Beloved. [26] And it will be in the place where they were told, you are not my people, there they will be called sons of the living God. [27] But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved; [28] since the Lord will execute his sentence completely and decisively on the earth. [29] And just as Isaiah predicted: If the Lord of Hosts had not left us offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.