Romans 9:13
Even 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 Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob; 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
- Gen 29:31 : 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- Gen 29:33 : 33 She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.
- Deut 21:15 : 15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
- Prov 13:24 : 24 One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
- 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 isn't worthy of me.
- Luke 14:26 : 26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
- John 12:25 : 25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
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20 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.
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9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."
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18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"
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