"It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. {elder: or, greater} {younger: or, lesser}" — Romans 9:12

Romans 9:12 · KJV

“It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. {elder: or, greater} {younger: or, lesser}”

— Romans 9:12

(For {the children} being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Verse 13

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

Romans 9 — Context

And not only {this}; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, {even} by our father Isaac;

(For {the children} being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. {elder: or, greater} {younger: or, lesser}

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

What shall we say then? {Is there} unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

Cross References

Genesis 25:22-23

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If {it be} so, why {am} I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.

2 Samuel 8:14

And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

1 Kings 22:47

And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.