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Romans 9:16

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16So then it depends not on human will or exertion,2 but on God, who has mercy.

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Romans 9:16: So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

Footnotes

  1. 2Greek not of him who wills or runs

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.

NLTNew Living Translation

So it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Consequently therefore, it does not depend on the one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.

KJV 1900King James Version

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.