Berean Standard Bible
Romans 9:17
17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”1
Romans 9:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
- New International Version (NIV)For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."
- New King James Version (NKJV)For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”
Context of Romans 9:17
15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden. 19One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
Read all of Romans 9Romans 9:17 word by word
λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφὴ τῷ Φαραὼ ὅτι εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἐξήγειρά σε ὅπως ἐνδείξωμαι ἐν σοὶ τὴν δύναμίν μου καὶ ὅπως διαγγελῇ τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.Read the interlinear
- Forγάρgar · forG1063
- theὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- Scriptureγραφήgraphē · a writingG1124
- saysλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
- PharaohΦαραώPharaō · PharaohG5328
- ·ὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
- I raised you upἐξεγείρωexegeirō · to raiseG1825
- I raised you upσύsu · youG4771
- forεἰςeis · towardG1519
- this veryαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
- ·οὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
- thatὅπωςhopōs · thatG3704
- I might displayἐνδείκνυμιendeiknumi · to showG1731
- Myἐγώegō · I/weG1473
- powerδύναμιςdunamis · powerG1411
- inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- nameὄνομαonoma · nameG3686
- might be proclaimedδιαγγέλλωdiaggellō · to proclaimG1229
- allπᾶςpas · allG3956
- earthγῆgē · earth: planetG1093
Cross-references for Romans 9:17
- Romans 11:4And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
- Galatians 3:8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
- Galatians 4:30But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
- Exodus 9:16But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
- 1 Samuel 2:7The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- Esther 4:14For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
- Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
- Isaiah 45:1This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
- Jeremiah 27:6So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.
- Daniel 4:22you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your dominion extends to the ends of the earth.
- Daniel 5:18As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.
- Exodus 10:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,
- Exodus 14:17And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and horsemen.
- Exodus 15:14The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
- Exodus 18:10Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.
- Joshua 2:9and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.
Commentaries on Romans 9:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh - Instead of showing the Israelites mercy he might justly have suffered them to have gone on in sin, till he should have signalized his wisdom and justice in their destruction; as appears from what God in his word declares concerning his dealings with Pharaoh and the Egyptians, Exodus 9:15, Exodus 9:16; : For now, saith the Lord, I had stretched forth my hand, (in the plague of boils and blains), and I had smitten thee…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-24Verses 14-24 Whatever God does, must be just. Wherein the holy, happy people of God differ from others, God's grace alone makes them differ. In this preventing, effectual, distinguishing grace, he acts as a benefactor, whose grace is his own. None have deserved it; so that those who are saved, must thank God only; and those who perish, must blame themselves only, Hos 13:9. God is bound no further than he has been pleased to bind himself by his own…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17the Scripture says to Pharaoh: Following God's command, Moses commanded Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave Egypt for their own land (Exodus 9:16). Pharaoh stubbornly refused. In response, God performed many miracles. Through these acts, God showed his power and authority to Israel, to Pharaoh, and to the people of Egypt (see Exodus 6:7; 7:5; 9:14–16; 14:31).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. For the scripture saith to Pharaoh--observe here the light in which the Scripture is viewed by the apostle. Even for this same--"this very" purpose have I raised--"raised I" thee up, &c.--The apostle had shown that God claims the right to choose whom He will: here he shows by an example that God punishes whom He will. But "God did not make Pharaoh wicked; He only forbore to make him good, by the exercise of special and altogether unmerited grace"…Read the comment
- Calvin’s Commentaries · v. 1717. For the Scripture saith, etc. He comes now to the second part, the rejection of the ungodly, and as there seems to be something more unreasonable in this, he endeavours to make it more fully evident, how God, in rejecting whom he wills, is not only irreprehensible, but also wonderful in his wisdom and justice. He then takes his proof from Exodus 9:16, where the Lord declares that it was he who raised up Pharaoh for this end, that while he obstinately…Read the comment
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Notes
- 1. Romans 9:17 Exodus 9:16 (see also LXX) ↩
Commentaries on Romans 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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