Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Parallel translations
- KJV As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
- BSB So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
- NKJV As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
- NASB Just as it is written: “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
- NLT In the words of the Scriptures, “I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau.”
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Cross-references · 8
- Mal 1:2–3“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;
- Deut 21:15If a man has 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 is hers who was hated;
- Gen 29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- Gen 29:33She conceived again, and bore a son, and said, “Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also.” She named him Simeon.
- Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
- Prov 13:24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
- Matt 10:37He 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.
- John 12:25He 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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