Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Therefore He has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will, He hardens.

New American Standard Bible

So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

King James Version

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

Holman Bible

So then, He shows mercy to those He wants to, and He hardens those He wants to harden.

International Standard Version

Therefore, God has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses.

A Conservative Version

So then he is merciful to whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.

American Standard Version

So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth.

Amplified

So then, He has mercy on whom He wills (chooses), and He hardens [the heart of] whom He wills.

An Understandable Version

So then, God has pity on whomever He wants to, and He makes stubborn whomever He wants.

Anderson New Testament

Therefore, he has mercy on whom he wills to have mercy: and whom he wills to harden, he hardens.

Bible in Basic English

So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

Common New Testament

Therefore he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens the heart of whom he wills.

Daniel Mace New Testament

thus some he pursues with his favours, and abandons others to their obduracy, according as he thinks fit.

Darby Translation

So then, to whom he will he shews mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

Godbey New Testament

Then therefore he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.

Goodspeed New Testament

So he has mercy on anyone he pleases, and hardens the heart of anyone he pleases.

John Wesley New Testament

So then he hath mercy on whom he willeth, and whom he willeth, he hardneth.

Julia Smith Translation

Surely then, whom he will he commiserates, and whom he will he hardens.

King James 2000

Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Consequently therefore, he has mercy on whomever he wishes, and he hardens whomever he wishes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

So hath he mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he maketh hard hearted.

Moffatt New Testament

Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.

Montgomery New Testament

So then he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will, he hardens.

NET Bible

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

New Heart English Bible

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

Noyes New Testament

So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and hardeneth whom he will.

Sawyer New Testament

He therefore has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens.

The Emphasized Bible

Hence, then, - on whom he pleaseth, he hath mercy, and, whom he pleaseth, he doth harden.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Well then, he hath mercy on whom he will, but whom he will he hardeneth.

Twentieth Century New Testament

So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.

Webster

Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

Weymouth New Testament

This is a proof that wherever He chooses He shows mercy, and wherever he chooses He hardens the heart.

Williams New Testament

So He has mercy on any man that He chooses to, and He hardens any man that He chooses to harden.

World English Bible

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

Worrell New Testament

So, then, He hath mercy on whom He willeth, and whom He willeth He hardeneth.

Worsley New Testament

So then He hath mercy on whom He pleaseth, and whom He will, He hardeneth.

Youngs Literal Translation

so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

hath he mercy on
ἐλεέω 
Eleeo 
Usage: 26

ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980
Usage: 980

he will
θέλω ἐθέλω 
thelo 
θέλω ἐθέλω 
thelo 
will/would, will/would have, desire, desirous, list, to will,
will/would, will/would have, desire, desirous, list, to will,
Usage: 136
Usage: 136

have mercy, and
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

Context Readings

God's Sovereign Choice To Show Mercy

17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose I have raised you up, that I might show My power in you, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth." 18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will, He hardens. 19 You will then say to me, Why does He yet find fault? For who has resisted His will?


Cross References

Exodus 4:21

And Jehovah said to Moses, When you go to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders which I have put in your hand before Pharaoh; but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him. For Jehovah your God hardened his spirit and made his heart stubborn so that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.

Joshua 11:20

For it was of Jehovah to harden their hearts so that they should come against Israel in battle, so that they might be destroyed, so that they might have no favor, but that He might destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Exodus 7:13

And He hardened Pharaoh's heart so that he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said.

Isaiah 63:17

O Jehovah, why have You made us wander from Your ways. You harden our heart from Your fear? For Your servants' sake, return the tribes of Your inheritance.

Matthew 13:14-15

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which said, "By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and shall not perceive;

Acts 28:26-28

saying, "Go to this people and say: Hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and not perceive.

Romans 1:24-28

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.

Romans 5:20-21

But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

Romans 9:15-16

For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

Romans 11:7-8

What then? Israel has not obtained that which it seeks, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He has made us accepted in the One having been loved.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.

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