Romans 9:13

In context

11Before the children were born, before they had done anything good or bad—so that God’s purpose of choosing might stand, resting not on works but on the one who calls— 12she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13As it stands written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” 14What shall we say, then? Is there injustice in God? Never. 15For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”