- Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
- What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
- And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
- even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.
- As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, 'MY PEOPLE,' AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, 'BELOVED.'"
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- 陶匠难道没有权柄,从一团泥里拿一块作成贵重的器皿,又拿一块作成卑贱的器皿麽。
- 倘若神要显明他的忿怒,彰显他的权能,就多多忍耐宽容那可怒预备遭毁灭的器皿。
- 又要将他丰盛的荣耀,彰显在那蒙怜悯早豫备得荣耀的器皿上。
- 这器皿就是我们被神所召的,不但是从犹太人中,也是从外邦人中,这有什么不可呢。
- 就像神在何西阿书上说,那本来不是我子民的,我要称为我的子民。本来不是蒙爱的,我要称为蒙爱的。
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