Romans 9:13

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As it is written: 'Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.'

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  • Mal 1:2-3 : 2 I have loved you, says the LORD. But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother? declares the LORD. Yet I have loved Jacob, 3 but Esau I have hated. I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild creatures of the desert.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.
  • Gen 29:33 : 33 She conceived again and gave birth to a son, and she said, 'Because the LORD heard that I am unloved, He has given me this one too.' So she named him Simeon.
  • Deut 21:15 : 15 If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife,
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 Whoever spares the rod hates their child, but the one who loves their child is diligent to discipline them.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

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  • Rom 9:10-12
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    10Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

    11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand,

    12not by works but by him who calls—she was told, 'The older will serve the younger.'

  • Mal 1:2-3
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    2I have loved you, says the LORD. But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother? declares the LORD. Yet I have loved Jacob,

    3but Esau I have hated. I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild creatures of the desert.

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    41Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, 'The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.'

    42When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, 'Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself with the thought of killing you.'

  • Rom 9:14-16
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    14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

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

    16So then, it does not depend on human desire or effort but on God’s mercy.

  • Gen 25:28
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    28Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed the game Esau brought, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • Rom 11:28
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    28As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,

  • Jer 49:10
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    10But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he cannot hide. His descendants, brothers, and neighbors are destroyed, and he is no more.

  • Amos 6:8
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    8The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Hosts: 'I detest the pride of Jacob and hate his fortresses, so I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.'

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21Do I not hate those who hate You, LORD, and detest those who rise up against You?

    22I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them as my enemies.

  • Hos 9:15
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    15All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. Because of their evil deeds, I will drive them from My house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

  • Heb 11:20
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    20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

  • Obad 1:18
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    18The house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame; the house of Esau will be stubble. They will set it on fire and consume it. There will be no survivors from the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.

  • Gen 33:9
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    9But Esau said, 'I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.'

  • Rom 9:25
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    25As he says in Hosea: 'I will call those who were not my people, ‘My people,’ and her who was not beloved, ‘Beloved.’'

  • Heb 11:18
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    18even though it was said to him, 'Through Isaac your descendants will be named.'

  • Heb 12:17
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    17For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He found no opportunity for repentance, even though he sought it with tears.

  • Gen 27:30
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    30As soon as Isaac finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

  • Obad 1:6
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    6How Esau has been pillaged; his hidden treasures sought out!

  • Gen 29:31
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    31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel remained barren.

  • Gen 27:36
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    36Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

  • Gen 37:4
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    4But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all of them, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

  • Gen 27:15
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    15Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

  • Gen 36:9
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    9These are the descendants of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.

  • Rom 9:29
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    29And just as Isaiah said previously: 'Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been made like Gomorrah.'

  • Hos 11:1
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    1When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

  • Rom 9:8
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    8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

  • Rom 9:6
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    6It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

  • Rom 9:3
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    3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own people according to the flesh.

  • John 15:18
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    18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

  • Matt 5:43
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    43You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'