Romans 9:13
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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10 And 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;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
- Mal 1:2-32 verses79%
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.
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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.
42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younr son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
- Rom 9:14-163 verses76%
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For 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.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
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28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
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10 But 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.
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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.
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34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
- Ps 139:21-222 verses70%
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
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15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine use, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
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20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
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18 And the house of Jac 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.
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9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
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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.
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18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
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17 For 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.
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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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6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
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31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
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36 And 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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4 And 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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15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younr son:
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9 And these are the nerations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
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29 And 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.
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1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the pmise are counted for the seed.
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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:
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3 For I could wish that myself were accursed fm 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.