12 not by works but by the one who calls—it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”[a] 13 just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[b]

God’s Sovereign Choice to Show Mercy

14 What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God, is there?[c] May it never be!

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:12 A quotation from Gen 25:23
  2. Romans 9:13 A quotation from Mal 1:2–3
  3. Romans 9:14 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here