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Lexham English Bible

Romans 9:15

For to Moses he says, "I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Grace of God;   Predestination;   Quotations and Allusions;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Election;   Mercy of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Election;   Jonah;   Mission;   Pharaoh;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Compassion;   Covenant;   Jonah, Theology of;   Mercy;   Providence of God;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Calvinists;   Decrees of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sovereignty;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lot (1);   Old Testament;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Compassion;   Election;   Justification;   Mercy, Merciful;   Predestination;   Romans, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Election;   Evil;   Paul the Apostle;   Plagues of Egypt;   Predestination;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Election;   Mercy;   Mercy ;   Pity Compassion;   Repentance;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Elect;   Esau;   Plagues of egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Compassion;   Predestination;   Quotations, New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For he tells Moses, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
King James Version (1611)
For hee saith to Moses, I will haue mercy on whom I wil haue mercie, and I will haue compassion on whom I will haue compassion.
King James Version
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
English Standard Version
For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
New American Standard Bible
For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOMEVER I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL SHOW COMPASSION TO WHOMEVER I SHOW COMPASSION."
New Century Version
God said to Moses, "I will show kindness to anyone to whom I want to show kindness, and I will show mercy to anyone to whom I want to show mercy."
Amplified Bible
For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOMEVER I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOMEVER I HAVE COMPASSION."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION."
Legacy Standard Bible
For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
Berean Standard Bible
For He says to Moses: "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told Moses that he has pity and mercy on anyone he wants to.
Complete Jewish Bible
For to Moshe he says, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will pity whom I pity."
Darby Translation
For he says to Moses, I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy, and I will feel compassion for whom I will feel compassion.
Easy-to-Read Version
God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I want to show mercy to. I will show pity to anyone I choose."
Geneva Bible (1587)
For he saith to Moses, I wil haue mercy on him, to whom I wil shew mercie: and wil haue compassion on him, on who I wil haue copassion.
George Lamsa Translation
For he said to Moses also, I will have mercy on him whom I love, and I will have compassion on him whom I favor.
Good News Translation
For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on anyone I wish; I will take pity on anyone I wish."
Literal Translation
For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will pity whomever I will pity." Ex. 33:19
American Standard Version
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
Bible in Basic English
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
Hebrew Names Version
For he said to Moshe, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
International Standard Version
For he says to Moses, "I will be merciful to the person I want to be merciful to, and I will be kind to the person I want to be kind to."Exodus 33:19">[fn]Exodus 33:19;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
behold, also, he said unto Musha, I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious.
Murdock Translation
Behold, to Moses also he said: I will have pity, on whom I will have pity; and I will be merciful, to whom I will be merciful.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he sayth to Moyses: I wyll shewe mercy to whom I shewe mercy: And wyll haue compassion, on whom I haue compassion.
English Revised Version
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
World English Bible
For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Weymouth's New Testament
No, indeed; the solution is found in His words to Moses, "Wherever I show mercy it shall be nothing but mercy, and wherever I show compassion it shall be simply compassion."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God forbede. For he seith to Moyses, Y schal haue merci on whom Y haue merci; and Y schal yyue merci on whom Y schal haue merci.
Update Bible Version
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
Webster's Bible Translation
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
New English Translation
For he says to Moses: " I will have mercy on whom I have mercy , and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion ."
New King James Version
For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion." Exodus 33:19">[fn]
New Living Translation
For God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose."
New Life Bible
God said to Moses, "I will have loving-kindness and loving-pity for anyone I want to."
New Revised Standard
For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, unto Moses, he saith - I will have mercy upon whomsoever I can have mercy, and I will have compassion upon whomsoever I can have compassion.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.
Revised Standard Version
For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For he sayth to Moses: I will shewe mercye to who I shewe mercy: and will have compassion on whom I have copassion.
Young's Literal Translation
for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For he sayeth vnto Moses: I shewe mercy, to whom I shewe mercy: and haue copassion,
Mace New Testament (1729)
God forbid. for he saith to Moses, "I will show favour to whom I will show favour, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
Simplified Cowboy Version
God said to Moses, "I'll show mercy to whoever I want. I'll give compassion to anyone I choose."

Contextual Overview

14 What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! 15 For to Moses he says, "I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion." 16 Consequently therefore, it does not depend on the one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy. 17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very reason I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." 18 Consequently therefore, he has mercy on whomever he wishes, and he hardens whomever he wishes. 19 Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will? 20 On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this"? 21 Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump a vessel that is for honorable use and one that is for ordinary use? 22 And what if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And he did so in order that he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will have: Romans 9:16, Romans 9:18, Romans 9:19, Exodus 33:19, Exodus 34:6, Exodus 34:7, Isaiah 27:11, Micah 7:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:16 - the Lord Nehemiah 9:17 - gracious Psalms 31:16 - save Psalms 101:1 - I will sing Ecclesiastes 7:13 - who Isaiah 30:18 - therefore Lamentations 3:37 - saith Ezekiel 16:6 - Live Matthew 20:13 - I do Matthew 20:15 - it Luke 4:25 - many Acts 9:6 - Arise Acts 11:17 - as God Ephesians 2:4 - his 2 Timothy 1:18 - mercy Hebrews 10:28 - without James 1:18 - his own

Cross-References

Genesis 9:8
And God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and every animal of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark to all the animals of the earth.
Exodus 28:12
And you will set the two stones on the ephod's shoulder pieces as stones of remembrance for the Israelites, and Aaron will bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulder pieces for remembrance.
Deuteronomy 7:9
So know that Yahweh your God, he is God, the trustworthy God, maintaining his covenant and his loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
1 Kings 8:23
and he said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, there is no god like you in the heavens above or on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the loyal love for your servants who are walking before you with all their heart.
Nehemiah 9:32
"And now our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God who keeps his covenant and loyal love, do not belittle in your presence all of the hardship that is found in us, our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all of our people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
Psalms 106:45
And he remembered his covenant with them, and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.
Jeremiah 14:21
You must not spurn us for the sake of your name, you must not dishonor your glorious throne. Remember us! You must not break your covenant with us.
Ezekiel 16:60
And I, I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant.
Luke 1:72
to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he saith to Moses,.... That is, God said to Moses. The apostle goes on to answer to the above objections, by producing some testimonies out of the writings of Moses, in favour of both branches of predestination; showing, that the doctrine he had advanced, was no other than what God himself had delivered to Moses, whose name and writings were in great esteem with the Jews, whereby the apostle might hope to give full satisfaction in this point. The first passage he cites, is in Exodus 33:19.

And will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. This is produced, in favour of special, particular, and personal election, and to clear it from any charge of unrighteousness; and by it, it appears, that God bestows his grace and mercy in time, on such persons he has willed and determined from all eternity to bestow it; this, is clear from hence, for since all this is dependent on his will, it must be as this was his will from eternity, seeing no new will can possibly arise in God, God wills nothing in time, but what he willed before time; that this grace and mercy are shown only to some persons, and that the only reason of this is his sovereign will and pleasure, and not the works and merits of men; wherefore since this grace and mercy rise out of his own free good will and pleasure, and are by no means the creature's due, it most clearly follows, that God in determining to bestow his grace and mercy, and in the actual doing of it, whilst he determines to deny it, and does deny it to others, cannot possibly be chargeable with any unrighteousness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he saith to Moses - Exodus 33:19.

I will have mercy - This is said by God when he declared expressly that he would make all his goodness pass before Moses Exodus 33:19, and when, therefore, it was regarded, not as a proof of stern and inexorable justice, but as “the very proof of his benevolence,” and the highest which he thought proper to exhibit. When people, therefore, under the influence of an unrenewed and hosthe heart, charge this as an unjust and arbitrary proceeding, they are resisting and perverting what God regards as the very demonstration of his benevolence. The sense of the passage clearly is, that he would choose the objects of his favor, and bestow his mercies as he chose. None of the human race deserved his favor; and he had a right to pardon whom he pleased, and to save people on his own terms, and according to his sovereign will and pleasure.

On whom I will have mercy - On whom I choose to bestow mercy. The mode he does not explain. But there could not be a more positive declaration of these truths,

  1. That he does it as a sovereign, without giving an account of the reason of his choice to any.

(2)That he does it without regard to any claim on the part of man; or that man is regarded as destitute of merit, and as having no right to his mercy.

(3)That he will do it to any extent which he pleases, and in whatever time and manner may best accord with his own good pleasure.

(4)That he has regard to a definite number and that on that number he intends to bestow eternal life; and,

  1. That no one has a right to complain.

It is proof of his benevolence that any are saved; and where none have a claim, where all are justly condemned, he has a right to pardon whom he pleases. The executive of a country may select any number of criminals whom he may see fit to pardon, or who may be forgiven in consistency with the supremacy of the laws and the welfare of the community and none has a right to complain, but every good citizen should rejoice that any may be pardoned with safety. So in the moral world, and under the administration of its holy Sovereign, it should be a matter of joy that any can be pardoned and saved; and not a subject of murmuring and complaint that those who shall finally deserve to die shall be consigned to woe.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 9:15. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy, c.] The words of God to Moses, Exodus 33:19, show that God has a right to dispense his blessings as he pleases for, after he had declared that he would spare the Jews of old, and continue them in the relation of his peculiar people, when they had deserved to have been cut off for their idolatry, he said: I will make all my goodness pass before thee; and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. As if he had said: I will make such a display of my perfections as shall convince you that my nature is kind and beneficent; but know, that I am a debtor to none of my creatures. My benefits and blessings are merely from my own good will: nor can any people, much less a rebellious people, challenge them as their due in justice or equity. And therefore I now spare the Jews; not because either you, who intercede for them or they themselves have any claim upon my favour, but of my own free and sovereign grace I choose to show them mercy and compassion. I will give my salvation in my own way and on my own terms. He that believeth on my Son Jesus shall be saved; and he that believeth not shall be damned. This is God's ultimate design; this purpose he will never change; and this he has fully declared in the everlasting Gospel. This is the grand DECREE of reprobation and election.


 
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