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   ocr: something undeserved - Genesis 28:10-22;32:22-32 am with you and will watch over you wherever you go... - - I - will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. (Gen. 28:15) In Romans 9, the apostle Paul uses Jacob as an example of God's grace. Why would God choose a cheating rascal like Jacob to carry out his plan of building a holy nation? "I will have mercy on whom have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion is God's answer. Paul loved the word grace-1t means 'an - undeserved gift"-because he had spent the first part of his life tighting against God's will ...