²¹ Or does not the potter have authority over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? ²² But what if God, wanting^[a] to demonstrate His wrath and to make-known His power, bore^[b] with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared^[c] for destruction, ²³ and did so in order that He might make-known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy which He prepared-beforehand^[d] for glory—