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Romans 9:13
Romans 9:13 is verse 13 of Romans chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Malachi 1:2–3
King James Version
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
World English Bible
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
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Romans 9:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
12 not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
13 So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
15 For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Malachi 1:2“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
Genesis 29:31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Genesis 29:33Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.
Deuteronomy 21:15If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
Proverbs 13:24He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
Matthew 10:37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
John 12:25Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.