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14 So what should we say about this? Is God unfair? In no way. 15 God said to Moses, “I will show kindness to anyone to whom I want to show kindness, and I will show mercy to anyone to whom I want to show mercy.”[a] 16 So God will choose the one to whom he decides to show mercy; his choice does not depend on what people want or try to do. 17 The Scripture says to the king of Egypt: “I made you king for this reason: to show my power in you so that my name will be talked about in all the earth.”[b] 18 So God shows mercy where he wants to show mercy, and he makes stubborn the people he wants to make stubborn.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:15 “I . . . mercy.” Quotation from Exodus 33:19.
  2. 9:17 “I . . . earth.” Quotation from Exodus 9:16.

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