12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[a](A) 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[b](B)

14 What then shall we say?(C) Is God unjust? Not at all!(D) 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.”[c](E)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:12 Gen. 25:23
  2. Romans 9:13 Mal. 1:2,3
  3. Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19

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