^{13 Ref} according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

^{14 Ref} What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness `is' with God? let it not be!

^{15 Ref} for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

^{16 Ref} so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

^{17 Ref} for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- `For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

^{18 Ref} so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.