Romans 9:13

American Standard Version (1901)

Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

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  • Mal 1:2-3 : 2 I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob; 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 29:33 : 33 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I am hated, he hath therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name Simeon.
  • Deut 21:15 : 15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

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    10And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac--

    11for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,

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    2I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;

    3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

    42And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, [purposing] to kill thee.

  • Rom 9:14-16
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    14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

    15For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

    16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

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    28Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: and Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • Rom 11:28
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    28As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

  • Jer 49:10
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    10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brethren, and his neighbors; and he is not.

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    8The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. [

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    34And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

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    21Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

    22I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.

  • Hos 9:15
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    15All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.

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    20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

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    18And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.

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    9And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let that which thou hast be thine.

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    25As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.

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    18[ even he] to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

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    17For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father], though he sought it diligently with tears.

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    30And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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    31And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

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    36And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

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    4And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

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    8That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

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    6But [it is] not as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:

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    3For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

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    18If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you.

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    43Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: