So God does what he wants to do. He shows mercy to one person and makes another stubborn. One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still blame us? Who can oppose what he wants to do?” But you are a ...

Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy This phrase emphasizes God's sovereign will and divine prerogative in dispensing mercy. The context of Romans 9 is Paul's discussion of God's sovereignty in salvation, using examples from Israel's history.

18 Everything depends on what God decides to do, and he can either have pity on people or make them stubborn. 19 Someone may ask, “How can God blame us, if he makes us behave in the way he wants us to?” 20 But, my friend, I ask, “Who do you think you are to question God?

Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Jan 4, 2022 · First, God wants us to trust in His Son as Savior and Lord (Philippians 2:9–11). Second Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord . . . is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”

God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Mar 21, 2024 · The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (3:9) Peter’s support for the second coming culminated in an appeal to the character of God.

May 1, 2001 · Like the householder in our text, God has every right to do whatever He wants with what is His. And guess what, saints: all of creation belongs to God. The Lord is not obligated to save anyone.

May 31, 2018 · Psa 135:6 Whatever the LORD pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places. Job 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.