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Romans 9:15-24
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.So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.For the Scripture tells Pharaoh, I raised you up for this reason so that I may display my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in the whole earth.So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden.You will say to me, therefore,“ Why then does he still find fault? For who resists his will?”On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it,“ Why did you make me like this?”Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?And what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory on objects of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory—on us, the ones he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
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Deuteronomy 15:9
Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart,‘ The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty.
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Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!
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Mark 7:22
adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
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Jonah 4:1-4
Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious.He prayed to the LORD,“ Please, LORD, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.And now, LORD, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”The LORD asked,“ Is it right for you to be angry?”
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Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.
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Ephesians 1:11
In him we have also received an inheritance, because we were predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will,
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus said,“ I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.
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Romans 11:5-6
In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.
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1 Corinthians 4 7
For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it?
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Ephesians 2:1
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
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John 17:2
since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.
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Deuteronomy 28:54
The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,
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Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.“ The LORD had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors, he brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Proverbs 23:6
Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread, and don’t desire his choice food,
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Exodus 33:19
He said,“ I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name‘ the LORD’ before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
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Proverbs 28:22
A greedy one is in a hurry for wealth; he doesn’t know that poverty will come to him.
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Jeremiah 27:5-7
“ By my great strength and outstretched arm, I made the earth, and the people, and animals on the face of the earth. I give it to anyone I please.So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. I have even given him the wild animals to serve him.All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
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1 Chronicles 28 4-1 Chronicles 28 5
“ Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s family to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah, my father’s family, and from my father’s sons, he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.And out of all my sons— for the LORD has given me many sons— he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the LORD’s kingdom over Israel.
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James 5:9
Brothers and sisters, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!
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James 1:18
By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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Ephesians 2:5
made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!
