Romans 9:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

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, says the LORD. Yet you say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the LORD. Yet I loved Jacob, 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the jackals of the wilderness.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
  • Gen 29:33 : 33 And she conceived again and bore a son and said, Because the LORD has heard that I was unloved, He has therefore given me this son also; and she called his name Simeon.
  • Deut 21:15 : 15 If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated,
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

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

    11 For the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him who calls;

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

  • Mal 1:2-3
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    2 I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the LORD. Yet I loved Jacob,

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

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

    42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, your brother Esau, concerning you, comforts himself, planning to kill you.

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

    15 For He says 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 who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

  • Gen 25:28
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    28 And Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • Rom 11:28
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    28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

  • Jer 49:10
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    10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself: his descendants are spoiled, along with his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.

  • Amos 6:8
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    8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the pride of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34 Abraham begot Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

    22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

  • Hos 9:15
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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 my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

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

  • Obad 1:18
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    18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall kindle them and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.

  • Gen 33:9
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    9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.

  • Rom 9:25
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    25 As He says also in Hosea, I will call them My people, who were not My people; and her beloved, who was not beloved.

  • Heb 11:18
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    18 of whom it was said, 'In Isaac your seed shall be called,'

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

  • Gen 27:30
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    30 And it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob was scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

  • Obad 1:6
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    6 How Esau's things are searched out! How his hidden treasures are sought after!

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    31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

  • Gen 27:36
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    36 And he said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

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    4 And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

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    15 And Rebekah took the best garments of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son:

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

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    29 And as Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah.

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    1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

  • Rom 9:8
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    8 That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

  • Rom 9:6
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    6 Not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel:

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

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

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