Romans 9:13–24 · BSB
9:13
So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
9:14
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
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9:15
For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
9:16
So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
9:17
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
9:18
Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
9:19
One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
9:20
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
9:21
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
9:22
What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
9:23
What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
9:24
including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
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