13 just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[a]

God’s Sovereign Choice to Show Mercy

14 What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God, is there?[b] May it never be! 15 For to Moses he says, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:13 A quotation from Mal 1:2–3
  2. Romans 9:14 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here
  3. Romans 9:15 A quotation from Exod 33:19