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14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely 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.”[a] 16 So then,[b] it does not depend on human desire or exertion,[c] but on God who shows mercy.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:15 sn A quotation from Exod 33:19.
  2. Romans 9:16 sn There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.
  3. Romans 9:16 tn Grk “So then, [it does] not [depend] on the one who desires nor on the one who runs.”