¹⁶ However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you My power^(A) and to make My name known in all the earth.

²¹ Or has the potter no right over the clay,^(A) to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? ²² And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience^(B) objects of wrath ready for destruction?^(C)