Popular Bible Verses from ROM 9

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So then, salvation does not depend on human desire or the one who wills it, nor on human effort or the one who runs and strives, but on God who sovereignly shows mercy according to His own purposes.

For God says to Moses, declaring His sovereign freedom: "I will have mercy on whomever I choose to have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I choose to have compassion."*

On the contrary, O mere human being, who are you to argue with your Creator? Will the thing that is moulded say to the One who formed it, "Why did You make me in this particular way?"

So then, God has mercy on whomever He sovereignly wills to have mercy, and He hardens and confirms in rebellion whomever He wills to harden.

Or does not the potter have the right and authority over the clay, to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for honourable, noble use, and another vessel for common, dishonourable use?