Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
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Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
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Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
Romans 9:15
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 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
Romans 9:17
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.”
Romans 9:18
So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
Romans 9:19
You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Romans 9:21
Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
Exodus 33:19
He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
Exodus 34:6
Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
Matthew 20:15
Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
Romans 3:23
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Romans 9:7
Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
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Romans 9:11
For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
Romans 9:12
it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
Romans 9:13
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Malachi 1:2
“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
Malachi 1:3
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
Genesis 25:23
Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”
Deuteronomy 7:7
Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;
Deuteronomy 7:8
but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
Romans 9:23
and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—
Romans 9:24
us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
Deuteronomy 9:5
Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
John 15:16
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Romans 9:30
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
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John 1:13
who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
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Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Psalms 110:3
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Daniel 9:18
My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
Romans 4:16
For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Romans 5:20
The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly,
1 Corinthians 1:30
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
Ephesians 2:4
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:9
not of works, that no one would boast.
James 1:16
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
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Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
Ephesians 1:11
We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
2 Timothy 1:9
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
Romans 8:29
For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 8:30
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Ephesians 1:5
having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
Ephesians 1:9
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
Philippians 1:6
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 2:16
holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Thessalonians 1:11
To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,
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Romans 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
Romans 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Romans 7:3
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
Romans 14:12
So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
Romans 14:19
So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
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1 Timothy 1:16
However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
Romans 11:32
For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
1 Timothy 1:13
although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1 Peter 2:10
In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
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Romans 11:30
For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
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