Romans 9:16

New American Bible - revised edition

So it depends not upon a person’s will or exertion, but upon God, who shows mercy.

Cross References

Psalm 110:3

Yours is princely power from the day of your birth. In holy splendor before the daystar, like dew I begot you.

Isaiah 65:1

I was ready to respond to 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 invoke my name.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. The Gentle Mastery of Christ.

Matthew 4:8

Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence,

Luke 10:21

At that very moment he rejoiced [in] the holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

John 3:8

The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, 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

before they had yet been born or had done anything, good or bad, in order that God’s elective plan might continue,

Galatians 2:2

I went up in accord with a revelation, and I presented to them the gospel that I preach to the Gentiles—but privately to those of repute—so that I might not be running, or have run, in vain.

Ephesians 2:8

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

Philippians 2:13

For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.

James 1:18

He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Doers of the Word.