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17 If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?”(A)

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17 So if God gave them the same gift(A) he gave us(B) who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?”

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47 “Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”(A)

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47 “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water.(A) They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.”(B)

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20 But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”(A) 21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use?(B) 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction,(C) 23 and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 including us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the gentiles? 25 As he also says in Hosea,

“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
    and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’ ”(D)
26 “And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they shall be called children of the living God.”(E)

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20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](C) 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?(D)

22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience(E) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?(F) 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory(G) known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory(H) 24 even us, whom he also called,(I) not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?(J) 25 As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[b](K)

26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[c](L)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
  2. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
  3. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10

34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”(A)
35 “Or who has given a gift to him,
    to receive a gift in return?”

36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.(B)

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34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”[a](A)
35 “Who has ever given to God,
    that God should repay them?”[b](B)
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.(C)
    To him be the glory forever! Amen.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:34 Isaiah 40:13
  2. Romans 11:35 Job 41:11

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.”(A)

16 So it depends not on human will or exertion but on God who shows mercy.

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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.”[a](A)

16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.(B)

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  1. Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19

And God, who knows the human heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us,(A) and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.(B)

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God, who knows the heart,(A) showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them,(B) just as he did to us. He did not discriminate between us and them,(C) for he purified their hearts by faith.(D)

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35 All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
    and he does what he wills with the host of heaven
    and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can stay his hand
    or say to him, “What have you done?”(A)

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35 All the peoples of the earth
    are regarded as nothing.(A)
He does as he pleases(B)
    with the powers of heaven
    and the peoples of the earth.
No one can hold back(C) his hand(D)
    or say to him: “What have you done?”(E)

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13 Why do you contend against him,
    saying, ‘He will answer none of my[a] words’?(A)

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  1. 33.13 Compare Gk: Heb his

13 Why do you complain to him(A)
    that he responds to no one’s words[a]?(B)

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  1. Job 33:13 Or that he does not answer for any of his actions

15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.(A)

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15 “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on(A) them as he had come on us at the beginning.(B)

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45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the gentiles,(A)

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45 The circumcised believers who had come with Peter(A) were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out(B) even on Gentiles.(C)

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39 but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them—in that case you may even be found fighting against God!”

They were convinced by him,(A)

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39 But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.”(A)

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14 Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’[a](A)

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  1. 20.15 Gk is your eye evil because I am good?

14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’(A)

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Will you even put me in the wrong?
    Will you condemn me that you may be justified?(A)
Have you an arm like God,
    and can you thunder with a voice like his?(B)

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“Would you discredit my justice?(A)
    Would you condemn me to justify yourself?(B)
Do you have an arm like God’s,(C)
    and can your voice(D) thunder like his?(E)

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