For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.