Romans 9:18

God's Word

Therefore, if God wants to be kind to anyone, he will be. If he wants to make someone stubborn, he will.

Cross References

Exodus 10:1

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. I have made him and his officials stubborn so that I can do these miraculous signs among them.

Exodus 10:20

But the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn, so he did not let the Israelites go.

Exodus 10:27

But the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn, so he refused to let them go.

Exodus 11:10

Moses and Aaron showed Pharaoh all these amazing things. Yet, the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn, so he wouldn’t let the Israelites leave his country.

Exodus 14:17

I am making the Egyptians so stubborn that they will follow the Israelites. I will receive honor because of what I will do to Pharaoh, his entire army, his chariots, and cavalry.

Exodus 14:4

I will make Pharaoh so stubborn that he will pursue them. Then, because of what I do to Pharaoh and his entire army, I will receive honor, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” So that is what the Israelites did.

Exodus 4:21

The Lord said to Moses, “When you get back to Egypt, see that you show Pharaoh all the amazing things that I have given you the power to do. But I will make him stubborn so that he will not let the people go.

Exodus 7:13

Yet, Pharaoh continued to be stubborn and would not listen to them, as the Lord had predicted.

Exodus 7:3

But I will make Pharaoh stubborn. Even though I will do many miraculous signs and amazing things in Egypt,

Exodus 9:12

But the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn, so he wouldn’t listen to Moses and Aaron, as the Lord had predicted to Moses.

Exodus 9:7

Pharaoh found out that not one of the Israelites’ animals had died. Yet, Pharaoh continued to be stubborn and would not let the people go.

Isaiah 63:17

O Lord, why do you let us wander from your ways and become so stubborn that we are unable to fear you? Return for the sake of your servants. They are the tribes that belong to you.

John 12:40

“God blinded them and made them close-minded so that their eyes don’t see and their minds don’t understand. And they never turn to me for healing!”

Romans 11:25

Brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery so that you won’t become arrogant. The minds of some Israelites have become closed until all of God’s non-Jewish people are included.

Ephesians 1:6

so that the kindness  he had given us in his dear Son would be praised and given glory.

Deuteronomy 2:30

But King Sihon of Heshbon wouldn’t allow us to pass through. The Lord your God made him stubborn and overconfident in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.

Joshua 11:20

The Lord made their enemies stubborn enough to continue fighting against Israel so that he could claim them all for destruction without mercy, as he had commanded Moses.