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Romans 9:16

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9:16So then,30 it does not depend on human desire or exertion,31 but on God who shows 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. 30 There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.
  2. 31 Grk “So then, [it does] not [depend] on the one who desires nor on the one who runs.”

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

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

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

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.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

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

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