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Romans 9:15-16

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9:15 For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 1  9:16 So then, 2  it does not depend on human desire or exertion, 3  but on God who shows mercy.

1 sn A quotation from Exod 33:19.

2 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 tn Grk “So then, [it does] not [depend] on the one who desires nor on the one who runs.”



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