12. not by works but by the one who calls—it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”
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.