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Romans 9:18-29 CEV ...Everything depends on what God decides to do, (2 Chron 16:9) and he can either have pity on people or make them stubborn. (19) Someone may ask, "How can God blame us, if he makes us behave in the way he wants us to?" (20) But, my friend, I ask, "Who do you think you are to question God? Does the clay have the right to ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did? [Isa. 29:16] (21) Doesn't a potter have the right to make a fancy bowl and a plain bowl out of the same lump of clay?" [He makes us righteous based on our choices!] [Jer. 18:6] (22) God wanted to show his anger and reveal his power against everyone who deserved to be destroyed [we all deserve death]. But instead, he patiently put up with them. (23) He did this by showing how glorious he is when he has pity on the people he has chosen to share in his glory. (24) Whether Jews or Gentiles, we are those chosen ones, (25) just as the Lord says in the book of Hosea, "Although they are not my people, I will make them my people. I will treat with love those nations that have never been loved. [Hosea 2:23] (26) "Once they were told, 'You are not my people.' But in that very place they will be called children of the living God." [LXX-Hos. 2:1; Hosea 2:23] (27) And this is what the prophet Isaiah said about the people of Israel, "The people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand along the beach. But only a few who are left will be saved. (28) The Lord will be quick and sure to do on earth what he has warned he will do." [Isa. 10:22, 23] (29) Isaiah also said, "If the Lord All-Powerful had not spared some of our descendants, we would have been destroyed like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah." [Isa. 1:9 & 27-28 of 1-28]
It's very important to understand: God long ago made people "fit for destruction" only as a likely "unidentified class" of persons; all those who would refuse his help and so judge themselves wicked and rebellious. (Eze 18:20) He then searched through mankind (2 Chron 16:9) to identify every single individual who would allow themselves to be made righteous. Every person alive has thus decided their own fate... (John 3:19 of 16-21) The truth is beautiful without measure! (Isa 52:7-10)
Romans 9:18-29 GNB ...So then, God has mercy on anyone he wishes, (2 Chron 16:9) and he makes stubborn anyone he wishes. (19) But one of you will say to me, "If this is so, how can God find fault with anyone? Who can resist God's will?" (20) But who are you, my friend, to talk back to God? A clay pot does not ask the man who made it, "Why did you make me like this?" [Isa. 29:16] (21) After all, the man who makes the pots has the right to use the clay as he wishes, and to make two pots from the same lump of clay, one for special occasions and the other for ordinary use. [Jer. 18:6] [He makes us righteous based on our choices!] (22) And the same is true of what God has done. He wanted to show his anger and to make his power known [we all deserve death]. But he was very patient in enduring those who were the objects of his anger, who were doomed to destruction. (23) And he also wanted to reveal his abundant glory, which was poured out on us who are the objects of his mercy, those of us whom he has prepared to receive his glory. (24) For we are the people he called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles. (25) This is what he says in the book of Hosea: "The people who were not mine I will call 'My People.' The nation that I did not love I will call 'My Beloved.' [Hosea 2:23] (26) And in the very place where they were told, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called the children of the living God." [LXX-Hos. 2:1; Hosea 2:23] (27) And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: "Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved; (28) for the Lord will quickly settle his full account with the world." [Isa. 10:22, 23] (29) It is as Isaiah had said before, "If the Lord Almighty had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah." [Isa. 1:9 & 27-28 of 1-28]

Romans 9:18-29 LITV ...So, then, to whom He desires, (2 Chron 16:9) He shows mercy. And to whom He desires, He hardens. (19) You will then say to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will? (20) Yes, rather, O man, who are you answering against God? Shall the thing formed say to the One forming it, Why did You make me like this? [Isa. 29:16] (21) Or does not the potter have authority over the clay, out of the one lump to make one vessel to honor, [He makes us righteous based on our choices!] and one to dishonor? [Jer. 18:6] (22) But if God, desiring to demonstrate His wrath, and to make His power known [we all deserve death], endured in much long-suffering vessels of wrath having been fitted out for destruction, (23) and that He make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He before prepared for glory, (24) whom He also called, not only us, of Jews, but also out of nations. (25) As also He says in Hosea, I will call those Not My people, My people! And those not beloved, Beloved! [Hosea 2:23] (26) "And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there they will be called, "Sons of the Living God." [LXX-Hos. 2:1; Hosea 2:23] (27) But Isaiah cries on behalf of Israel, "If the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved." (28) For He is bringing the matter to an end, and having been cut short "in righteousness," "because the Lord" "will do a thing cut short" "on the earth." [Isa. 10:22, 23] (29) And as Isaiah has said before, "Except the Lord of hosts left a seed to us, we would have become as Sodom, and we would have become as Gomorrah." [Isa. 1:9 & 27-28 of 1-28]

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You will note the reference windows often include more than one translation of the Bible. The reason is to strive to gain the best possible understanding of the original Hebrew and Greek. Since we don't speak those languages, we rely on those who have come before and made the effort to translate those texts into English for us. Considering several translations gives the benefit of the understanding of several translation committees or individuals.
The Translations we quote are:

ALT - Analytical Literal Translation

ASV - American Standard Version (by the American revision committee in 1897).

BBE - 1965 Bible in Basic English

Bishops - 1568 Bishop's Bible

Calvin - 1856 by Calvin Translation Society

CEV - Contemporary English Version

Coverdale - 1535 Miles Coverdale Bible

Darby - 1889 Darby Bible

DRB - 1899 Douay-Rheims Bible

ESV - English Standard Version

GNB - Good News Bible

GW - God's Word Bible

ISV - International Standard Version

KJV - 1769 King James Version

KJV-1611 - Old King James Version from 1611

LitNT - Literal New Testament

LITV - Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

MKJV - 1962 Modern King James Version

Murdock - 1851 James Murdock New Testament

MWT - Modern World Translation

NWT - New World Translation

RV - Revised Version

Webster - 1833 Webster Bible

WTNT - 1525-26 William Tyndale New Testament

Wycliffe - 1394 Wycliffe Bible

YLT - 1862/1898 Young's Literal Translation

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