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## Romans 9:19-23 in Context (Verses 16–26 KJV)
 
 [16 ](/kjv/romans/9/16) So then *it is* not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/romans/9/17) For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/romans/9/18) Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will *have mercy*, and whom he will he hardeneth.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/romans/9/19) Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
 
 [20 ](/kjv/romans/9/20) Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed *it*, Why hast thou made me thus?
 
 [21 ](/kjv/romans/9/21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
 
 [22 ](/kjv/romans/9/22) *What* if God, willing to shew *his* wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
 
 [23 ](/kjv/romans/9/23) And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
 
 [24 ](/kjv/romans/9/24) Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
 
 [25 ](/kjv/romans/9/25) As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/romans/9/26) And it shall come to pass, *that* in the place where it was said unto them, Ye *are* not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
 
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