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

13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[a](A)

14 What then shall we say?(B) Is God unjust? Not at all!(C) 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.”[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:13 Mal. 1:2,3
  2. Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19