Rom 9:10-17 | NIV | STEP | Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.

Romans 9:10-17

10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad – in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls – she was told, ‘The older will serve the younger.’ ^{▼▼Gen. 25:23} 13 Just as it is written: ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.’ ^{▼▼Mal. 1:2,3}

14 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.’ ^{▼▼Exodus 33:19}
16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17 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.’ ^{▼▼Exodus 9:16}