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A community lifts an exhausted runner and offers water while a barred Egyptian royal gate stands closed in the distance.
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Romans 9:14-18

Mercy Beyond Human Effort

Promise, Mercy, and the Stone in Zion · Romans 9

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. There is no injustice with God. Mercy and compassion do not depend on human willing or running but on God who shows mercy; Scripture’s word to Pharaoh also displays divine power and the hardening of resistance.

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

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

16So then, it does not depend on the one who wills or the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.

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

18So then, he shows mercy to whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills.

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