Romans 9:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

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  • Rom 9:15-16 : 15 For he says to Moses:“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.
  • Exod 4:21 : 21 The LORD said to Moses,“When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
  • Josh 11:20 : 20 for the LORD determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.
  • Deut 2:30 : 30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the LORD our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.
  • Rom 11:7-8 : 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened, 8 as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved. 11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false. 12 And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Acts 28:26-28 : 26 when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive. 27 For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’ 28 “Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”
  • Rom 1:24-28 : 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.
  • Isa 63:17 : 17 Why, LORD, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!
  • Exod 7:13 : 13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend. 15 For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 9:13-17
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    13just as it is written:“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

    14What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

    15For he says to Moses:“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

    16So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

    17For the scripture says to Pharaoh:“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”

  • Rom 9:19-24
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    19You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

    20But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”

    21Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

    22But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

    23And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–

    24even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

  • Exod 33:19
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    19And the LORD said,“I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the LORD by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy.”

  • Exod 9:12
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    12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted to Moses.

  • Rom 11:29-32
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    29For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

    30Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

    31so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy.

    32For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.

  • Exod 10:1
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    1The Eighth Blow: Locusts The LORD said to Moses,“Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,

  • Exod 10:20
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    20But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites.

  • Lam 3:32
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    32Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.

  • Exod 10:27
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    27But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.

  • Exod 8:15
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    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

  • Exod 9:34-35
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    34When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again: both he and his servants hardened their hearts.

    35So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the LORD had predicted through Moses.

  • 1 Sam 6:6
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    6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?

  • Job 9:4
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    4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength– who has resisted him and remained safe?

  • Exod 7:13-14
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    13Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

    14The First Blow: Water to Blood The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh’s heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

  • Exod 14:8
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    8But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he chased after the Israelites. Now the Israelites were going out defiantly.

  • Rom 9:11
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    11even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–

  • Jas 2:13
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    13For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.

  • Rom 8:30-31
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    30And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

    31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

  • Exod 4:21
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    21The LORD said to Moses,“When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

  • Exod 11:9-10
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    9The LORD said to Moses,“Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

    10So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.

  • Exod 14:4
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    4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them. I will gain honor because of Pharaoh and because of all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what they did.

  • Job 37:13
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    13Whether it is for punishment, or for his land, or for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

  • Job 9:12
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    12If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’

  • Rom 11:6-7
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    6And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

    7What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

  • Exod 7:3
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    3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

  • Mic 7:18
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    18Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?

  • Exod 8:32
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    32But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.

  • Exod 8:19
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    19The magicians said to Pharaoh,“It is the finger of God!” But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

  • Rom 15:9
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    9and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,“Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name.”

  • Job 23:13
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    13But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

  • Eph 1:5
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    5He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will–

  • Exod 9:17
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    17You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.