So then, salvation does not depend on the one who wills it or on human desire, nor on the one who runs and strives or on human effort, but on God who sovereignly shows mercy according to His own purposes.
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
NMVSo then [it is] not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God-The Father that shows mercy.
OJBSo then, it is not a matter of the one who wills or the one who runs. It is a matter of the YAD HASHEM HACHANINAH (the hand of the G-d of gracious, free mercy).
TCENTSo then, it does not depend on human will or effort, but on God's mercy.
T4TSo God chooses people, not because they want God to choose them or because they try hard to do things so that he will accept them. Instead he chooses people because he himself has mercy on undeserving ones.