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11 for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,
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Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:
12 it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER."
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not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
13 Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED."
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Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!
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What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
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."
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For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.
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It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH."
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For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
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Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
19 You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?"
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One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”
20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?
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But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ”
21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
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Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
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