Romans 9:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

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  • Isa 65:1 : 1 I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.
  • Matt 11:25-26 : 25 At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.
  • Luke 10:21 : 21 In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
  • John 1:12-13 : 12 To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name: 13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
  • John 3:8 : 8 The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.
  • Rom 9:11 : 11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
  • 1 Cor 1:26-31 : 26 For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble: 27 But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong; 28 And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are: 29 So that no flesh might have glory before God. 30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy: 31 So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.
  • Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us, 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
  • Eph 2:8 : 8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
  • Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
  • 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true: 14 And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another. 4 But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
  • 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven. 10 In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.
  • Gen 27:1-4 : 1 Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I. 2 And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time: 3 So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me; 4 And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.
  • Gen 27:9-9 : 9 Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal to your father's taste: 10 And you will take it to him, so that he may have a good meal and give you his blessing before his death. 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, But Esau my brother is covered with hair, while I am smooth: 12 If by chance my father puts his hand on me, it will seem to him that I am tricking him, and he will put a curse on me in place of a blessing. 13 And his mother said, Let the curse be on me, my son: only do as I say, and go and get them for me. 14 So he went and got them and took them to his mother: and she made a meal to his father's taste.
  • Ps 110:3 : 3 Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

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    11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

    12 It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger.

    13 Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.

    14 What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

    15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

  • Rom 9:17-24
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    17 For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.

    18 So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

    19 But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

    20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

    21 Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

    22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

    23 And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

    24 Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

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    5 In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.

    6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

    7 What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

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    19 And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.

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    8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

    9 Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

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    29 Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.

    30 For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,

    31 So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.

    32 For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

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    16 But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

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    5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

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    6 But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

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    4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

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    27 But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not let them go.

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    13 For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

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    31 What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

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    12 For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

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    30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

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    10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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    20 But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go.

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    13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

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    15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,

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    6 Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?