Romans 9:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.””
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“So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Romans 9:13 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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