13. just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14. What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!
15. For to Moses he says, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”
16. Consequently therefore, it does not depend on the one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy.
17. For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very reason I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”