Romans 9:15

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Cross References

Exodus 33:19

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you the name, ‘The Lord’; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he that made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of your possession? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in showing clemency.

Romans 9:16

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