Romans 9:13

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Mal 1:2-3 : 2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 ¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.
  • Gen 29:33 : 33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] 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, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn 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] ‹come to me, and hate not his 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 shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.›

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    10And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac;

    11(For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

    12It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

  • Mal 1:2-3
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    2I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

    3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    41¶ And 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 these 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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    14¶ What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

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

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

  • Gen 25:28
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    28And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of [his] venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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

  • 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 spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he [is] not.

  • Amos 6:8
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    8¶ The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD 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.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

    22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

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

  • Heb 11:20
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    20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

  • Obad 1:18
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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 kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be [any] remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken [it].

  • Gen 33:9
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    9And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

  • Rom 9:25
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    25¶ As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

  • Heb 12:17
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    17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

  • Gen 27:30
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    30¶ And 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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    6How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought up!

  • Gen 29:31
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    31¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.

  • Gen 27:36
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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 when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

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    15And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which [were] with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:

  • Gen 36:9
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    9¶ And these [are] the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

  • Rom 9:29
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    29And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

  • Hos 11:1
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    1¶ When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

  • Rom 9:8
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    8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

  • Rom 9:6
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    6¶ Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel:

  • Rom 9:3
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    3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

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    18¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›

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    43¶ ‹Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.›