Bible Verses About The Love of God: Election

and before they were born, before they had done anything at all, either good or bad (so that God’s plan might remain a matter of his sovereign choice, not dependent on what they did, but on God, who does the calling),

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

This accords with where it is written, “Ya‘akov I loved, but Esav I hated.”