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they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
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For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
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Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
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What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—
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Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,
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so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.
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For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
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A Living Sacrifice
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
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if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
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and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles; I will sing the praises of your name.”
