Roma 5:8
Konteks5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Roma 9:15-16
Konteks9:15 For he says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 1 9:16 So then, 2 it does not depend on human desire or exertion, 3 but on God who shows mercy.
[9:15] 1 sn A quotation from Exod 33:19.
[9:16] 2 sn There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.
[9:16] 3 tn Grk “So then, [it does] not [depend] on the one who desires nor on the one who runs.”