Discovery BoxRomans 9:15-16 
Context9:15 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.
Romans 9:23-24
Context9:23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects 4 of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory – 9:24 even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
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.”
4 tn Grk “vessels.” This is the same Greek word used in v. 21.
