Romans 9:13

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 bare 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 hate 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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    10Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

    11For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

    12it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

  • Mal 1:2-3
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    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;

    3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."

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

    42The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

  • Rom 9:14-16
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    14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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

    16So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

  • Gen 25:28
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    28Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

  • Rom 11:28
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    28Concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.

  • 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 destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.

  • Amos 6:8
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    8"The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God of hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, And detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

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    34Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

    22I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

  • Hos 9:15
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    15"All their wickedness is in Gilgal; For there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds 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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    20By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

  • Obad 1:18
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    18The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

  • Gen 33:9
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    9Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."

  • Rom 9:25
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    25As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; And her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

  • Heb 11:18
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    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Heb 12:17
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    17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

  • Gen 27:30
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    30It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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    6How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

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    31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

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    36He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

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    4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

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    15Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

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    9This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:

  • Rom 9:29
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    29As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Hosts{Greek: Sabaoth} had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And would have been made like Gomorrah."

  • 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, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

  • Rom 9:6
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    6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.

  • Rom 9:3
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    3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

  • John 15:18
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    18If the world hates you, you know that it has 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.'