17 For ^athe Scripture says to the Pharaoh, ^b“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”  ‡

18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He ^ahardens.  ‡

20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? ^aWill the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”  ‡

21 Does not the ^apotter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make ^bone vessel for honor and another for dishonor?  ‡