Romans 9:16

The Scriptures 1998

So, then, it is not of him who is wishing, nor of him who is running, but of Elohim who shows favour.

Cross References

Psalm 110:3

Your people volunteer in the day of Your might, In the splendours of set-apartness! From the womb, from the morning, You have the dew of Your youth!

Isaiah 65:1

“I have let Myself be inquired of, not by those who asked; I was found, not by those who sought Me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’ to a nation not calling on My Name.

Matthew 11:27

“All have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him.

Matthew 4:8

Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain, and showed Him all the reigns of the world, and their esteem,

Luke 10:21

In that hour יהושע  exulted in the Spirit and said, “I praise You, Father, Master of the heaven and of the earth, that You have hidden these matters from clever and learned ones, and did reveal them to babes. Yea, Father, because thus it was well-pleasing in Your sight.

John 3:8

“The Spirit breathes where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”

Romans 9:11

Yet, before they were born or had done any good or evil – in order that the purpose of Elohim, according to choice, might stand, not of works but of Him who calls –

Galatians 2:2

And I went up by revelation, and laid before them that Good News which I proclaim among the gentiles, but separately to those who were esteemed, lest somehow I run, or had run, in vain.

Ephesians 2:8

For by favour you have been saved, through belief, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of Elohim,

Philippians 2:13

for it is Elohim who is working in you both to desire and to work for His good pleasure.

James 1:18

Having purposed it, He brought us forth by the Word of truth, for us to be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures.