Romans 9:13

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just as it is written:“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

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  • Mal 1:2-3 : 2 “I have shown love to you,” says the LORD, but you say,“How have you shown love to us?”“Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the LORD explains,“yet I chose Jacob 3 and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.
  • Gen 29:33 : 33 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“Because the LORD heard that I was unloved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.
  • Deut 21:15 : 15 Laws Concerning Children Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
  • Prov 13:24 : 24 The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever 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 own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 12:25 : 25 The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

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  • Rom 9:10-12
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    10Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–

    11even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–

    12it was said to her,“The older will serve the younger,”

  • Mal 1:2-3
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    2“I have shown love to you,” says the LORD, but you say,“How have you shown love to us?”“Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the LORD explains,“yet I chose Jacob

    3and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”

  • Gen 27:41-42
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    41So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”

    42When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him,“Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.

  • Rom 9:14-16
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    14What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely 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 exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

  • Gen 25:28
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    28Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • Rom 11:28
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    28In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

  • Jer 49:10
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    10But I will strip everything away from Esau’s descendants. I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide. Their children, relatives, and neighbors will all be destroyed. Not one of them will be left!

  • Amos 6:8
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    8The Sovereign LORD confirms this oath by his very own life. The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, is speaking:“I despise Jacob’s arrogance; I hate their fortresses. I will hand over to their enemies the city of Samaria and everything in it.”

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

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21O LORD, do I not hate those who hate you, and despise those who oppose you?

    22I absolutely hate them, they have become my enemies!

  • Hos 9:15
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    15Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels.

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

  • Obad 1:18
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    18The descendants of Jacob will be a fire, and the descendants of Joseph a flame. The descendants of Esau will be like stubble. They will burn them up and devour them. There will not be a single survivor of the descendants of Esau!” Indeed, the LORD has spoken it.

  • Gen 33:9
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    9But Esau said,“I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”

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

  • Heb 11:18
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    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

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

  • Gen 27:30
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    30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

  • Obad 1:6
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    6How the people of Esau will be thoroughly plundered! Their hidden valuables will be ransacked!

  • Gen 29:31
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    31The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

  • Gen 27:36
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    36Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

  • Gen 37:4
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    4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

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

  • Gen 36:9
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    9This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.

  • Rom 9:29
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    29Just as Isaiah predicted,“If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”

  • Hos 11:1
    67%

    1Reversal of the Exodus: Return to Egypt and Exile in Assyria When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

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

  • Rom 9:6
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    6It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

  • Rom 9:3
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    3For I could wish that I myself were accursed– cut off from Christ– for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

  • John 15:18
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    18The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

  • Matt 5:43
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    43Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’