¹⁶ But I have raised you up^[a] for this very purpose,^(A) that I might show you my power^(B) and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

²¹ Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?^(A)

²² What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience^(B) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?^(C)