Romans 9:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ So it depends not on human will or exertion but on God who shows mercy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ So then [God's gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God's mercy. [It depends not on one's own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God's having mercy on him.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ So then, it doesn’t depend on a person’s desire or effort. It depends entirely on God, who shows mercy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Therefore, it is not based on those who choose, nor on those who excel, but on God who takes pity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Romans 9:16 Cross References

Psalm 110:3

Your people will offer themselves willingly on the day you lead your forces on the holy mountains. From the womb of the morning, like dew, your youth will come to you.

Isaiah 65:1

I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask, to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that did not call on my name.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Matthew 4:8

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,

Luke 10:21

At that very hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

John 3:8

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Romans 9:11

even before they had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose of election might continue,

Galatians 2:2

I went up in response to a revelation. Then I laid before them (though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I proclaim among the gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God—

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

James 1:18

In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.