12 it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”
13 just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
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.
17 For 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.”
18 So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.