Romans 9:16

Romans 9:16

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?”

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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So then (ara oun). In view of this quotation.

It is not of (ou). We must supply estin eleov with ou. "Mercy is not of." The articular participles (tou qelontos, tou trexontos, tou elewntov) can be understood as in the genitive with eleov understood (mercy is not a quality of) or as the predicate ablative of source like epilusewv in II Peter 1:20. Paul is fond of the metaphor of running.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 9:16:**

1 Corinthians 4:7
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Jude 1:22

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