Today's Verse - Romans 9:15-16

For God said to Moses,
   “I will show mercy to anyone I choose,
      and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.”
So it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it. (NLT)

The Lord told Moses that he has pity and mercy on anyone he wants to. ¹⁶Everything then depends on God's mercy and not on what people want or do. (CEV)

For he says to Moses,
   “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
   and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. (NIV)