9:21 窑匠难道没有权柄从一团泥里拿一块做成贵重的器皿，又拿一块做成卑贱的器皿吗？
9:22 倘若 神要显明他的忿怒，彰显他的权能，就多多忍耐宽容那可怒、预备遭毁灭的器皿；
9:23 又要将他丰盛的荣耀彰显在那蒙怜悯、早预备得荣耀的器皿上。
9:24 这器皿就是我们被 神所召的，不但是从犹太人中，也是从外邦人中。这有什么不可呢？
21Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
22What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath–prepared for destruction?
23What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory–
24even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?