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Israel’s Rejection and God’s Justice

14 What shall we say then? aIs there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!  
15 For He says to Moses, a“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”  
16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
17 For athe Scripture says to the Pharaoh, b“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”  
18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He ahardens.  
19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For awho has resisted His will?”  
20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? aWill the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”  
21 Does not the apotter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make bone vessel for honor and another for dishonor?  
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering athe vessels of wrath bprepared for destruction,  
23 and that He might make known athe riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had bprepared beforehand for glory,  
24 even us whom He acalled, bnot of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?  
25 As He says also in Hosea:
a“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.” 
26 “Anda it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’
There they shall be called sons of the living God.”  
27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:
a“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
bThe remnant will be saved. 
28 For1 He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
aBecause the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”  
Verse Comparison: Romans 9:16

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American Standard Version
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

Amplified® Bible
So then [God's gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God's mercy. [It depends not on one's own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God's having mercy on him.]

Contemporary English Version
Everything then depends on God's mercy and not on what people want or do.

Darby English Version
So then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

Good News Bible
So then, everything depends, not on what we humans want or do, but only on God's mercy.

International Standard Version
Therefore, God's choice does not depend on a person's will or effort, but on God himself, who shows mercy.

King James Version
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

New American Standard Bible
So then it {does} not {depend} on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

New International Version
It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.

New King James Version
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

Young's Literal Translation
so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:


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