Romans 9:15
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Rom 9:15
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For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION."
Rom 9:16
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So then it {does} not {depend} on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.
Rom 9:17
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH."
Rom 9:18
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So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
Rom 9:19
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You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"
Rom 9:20
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On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?
Rom 9:21
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Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
Rom 9:22
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What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
Rom 9:23
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And {He did so} to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
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