Romans 9:14-24
Holman Christian Standard Bible
God’s Selection Is Just
14 What should we say then?(A) Is there injustice with God?(B) Absolutely not!(C) 15 For He tells Moses:
I will show mercy
to whom I will show mercy,
and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion.(D)[a]
16 So then it does not depend on human will or effort[b](E) but on God who shows mercy.(F) 17 For the Scripture tells Pharaoh:
I raised you up for this reason
so that I may display My power in you
and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.(G)[c]
18 So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.(H)
19 You will say to me,(I) therefore, “Why then does He still find fault?(J) For who can resist His will?”(K) 20 But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God?(L) Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”(M) 21 Or has the potter no right over the clay,(N) to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor? 22 And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience(O) objects of wrath ready for destruction?(P) 23 And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory(Q) on objects of mercy(R) that He prepared beforehand for glory(S)— 24 on us, the ones He also called,(T) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(U)
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- Romans 9:15 Ex 33:19
- Romans 9:16 Or on the one running; lit on the one willing
- Romans 9:17 Ex 9:16
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