10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.
11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad – in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:
12 not by works but by him who calls – she was told, ‘The older will serve the younger.’
13 Just as it is written: ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.’
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
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 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.