Popular Bible Verses from Romans 9

So then, salvation does not depend on the one who wills it or on human desire, nor on the one who runs and strives or on human effort, 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 honorable, noble use, and another vessel for common, dishonorable use?