Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destructio
The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have p
For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth tha
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his hear
The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiv
Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your se
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one ano
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing
to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.