📜WEB · Romans 9:15
What does Romans 9:15 mean?
"For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”"
— Romans 9:15 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
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