For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Parallel translations
- KJV For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
- BSB For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- NKJV For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
- NASB For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I show compassion.”
- NLT For God said to Moses, “I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.”
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- Exod 33:19He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
- Rom 9:16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
- Mic 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
- Rom 9:18–19So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
- Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- Isa 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
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