Bible verse
So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
Romans 9:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Romans 9.
12 not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
13 So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
15 For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
19 One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
KJV
So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
ASV
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.
ERV
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.
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