John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

John 19:11

Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin."

Romans 9:16

So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

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So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

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It was not

John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
John 19:11
Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin."
Romans 9:16
So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, but upon God's mercy.

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Philemon 1:15
Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever,