Romans 9:13

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

As {G2531} it is written {G1125}, Jacob {G2384} have I loved {G25}, but {G1161} Esau {G2269} have I hated {G3404}.

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

So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Malachi 1:2 (38 votes)

    I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

  • Malachi 1:3 (38 votes)

    And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

  • Genesis 29:31 (1 votes)

    ¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.

  • Genesis 29:33 (1 votes)

    And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name Simeon.

  • Deuteronomy 21:15 (1 votes)

    ¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

  • Luke 14:26 (0 votes)

    If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

  • Matthew 10:37 (0 votes)

    He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.