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Romans 9:15-24
For He says to Moses,“ I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I show compassion.”So then, it does not depend on the person who wants it nor the one who runs, but on God who has mercy.For the Scripture says to Pharaoh,“ For this very reason I raised you up, in order to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the earth.”So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.You will say to me then,“ Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?”On the contrary, who are you, you foolish person, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder,“ Why did you make me like this,” will it?Or does the potter not have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one object for honorable use, and another for common use?What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon objects of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,namely us, whom He also called, not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles,
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Deuteronomy 15:9
Be careful that there is no mean spirited thought in your heart, such as,‘ The seventh year, the year of release of debts, is near,’ and your eye is malicious toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry out to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin in you.
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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 that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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Mark 7:22
deeds of greed, wickedness, deceit, indecent behavior, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
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Jonah 4:1-4
But it greatly displeased Jonah, and he became angry.Then he prayed to the Lord and said,“ Please Lord, was this not what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore in anticipation of this I fled to Tarshish, since I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in mercy, and One who relents of disaster.So now, Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”But the Lord said,“ Do you have a good reason to be angry?”
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Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming.
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Ephesians 1:11
In Him we also have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the plan of His will,
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus said,“ I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to infants.
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Romans 11:5-6
In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, since otherwise grace is no longer grace.
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1 Corinthians 4 7
For who considers you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
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Ephesians 2:1
And you were dead in your offenses and sins,
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John 17:2
just as You gave Him authority over all mankind, so that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.
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Deuteronomy 28:54
The man who is refined and very delicate among you will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife he cherishes, and toward the rest of his children who are left,
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Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.“ The Lord did not make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since you were the fewest of all peoples,but because the Lord loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Proverbs 23:6
Do not eat the bread of a selfish person; Or desire his delicacies;
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Exodus 33:19
And He said,“ I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion to whom I will show compassion.”
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Proverbs 28:22
A person with an evil eye hurries after wealth And does not know that poverty will come upon him.
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Jeremiah 27:5-7
‘ I have made the earth, mankind, and the animals which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.And now I have handed all these lands over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have also given him the animals of the field to serve him.All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.
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1 Chronicles 28 4-1 Chronicles 28 5
Yet, the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from all the household of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father’s house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.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 kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
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James 5:9
Do not complain, brothers and sisters, against one another, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.
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James 1:18
In the exercise of His will He gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
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Ephesians 2:5
even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ( by grace you have been saved),
