¹⁵ For he says to Moses, ^(A)“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

¹⁹ And he said, ^(A)“I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And ^(B)I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

¹⁶ So then it depends not on human will or exertion,^[a] but on God, who has mercy.

¹⁸ So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

¹⁹ You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For ^(A)who can resist his will?”

God's Steadfast Love and Compassion

⁶ The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ^(A)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and ^(B)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast ^(C)love and faithfulness, ^7 (D)keeping steadfast love for thousands,^{[a] (E)}forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but ^(F)who will by no means clear the guilty, ^(G)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”