¹⁶ So then, it does not depend on the person who ^[a]wants it nor the one who ^[b](A)runs, but on ^(B)God who has mercy.

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “^(A)For this very reason I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed ^[a]throughout the earth.”