Acts 11:17
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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?”
Acts 10:47
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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)
Romans 9:20-26
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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,
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
- Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
- Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10
Romans 11:34-36
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Romans 9:15-16
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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)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19
Acts 15:8-9
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8 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. 9 He did not discriminate between us and them,(C) for he purified their hearts by faith.(D)
Daniel 4:35
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Job 33:13
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Footnotes
- Job 33:13 Or that he does not answer for any of his actions
Acts 11:15
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Acts 10:45
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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)
Acts 5:39
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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)
Matthew 20:14-15
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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)
Job 40:2
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Job 9:12-14
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