that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, 009:012 it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."{Genesis 25:23} 009:013 Even as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."{Malachi 1:2-3} 009:014 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be! 009:015 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."{Exodus 33:19} 009:016 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. 009:017 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."{Exodus 9:16} 009:018 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires. 009:019 You will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?" 009:020 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"{Isaiah 29:16; 45:9} 009:021 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? 009:022 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, 009:023 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, 009:024 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? 009:025 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."{Hosea 2:23} 009:026 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"{Hosea 1:10} 009:027 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved; 009:028 for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."{Isaiah 10:22-23} 009:029 As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies{Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze'va'ot)} had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."{Isaiah 1:9} 009:030 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; 009:031 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness. 009:032 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law.