Romans 9:13 · KJV
“As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
— Romans 9:13
It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. {elder: or, greater} {younger: or, lesser}
What shall we say then? {Is there} unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Romans 9 — Context
(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;)
12It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. {elder: or, greater} {younger: or, lesser}
13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14What shall we say then? {Is there} unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Cross References
Malachi 1:2-3
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,
Genesis 29:33
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. {Simeon: that is, Hearing}
Deuteronomy 21:15
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:
Genesis 29:31
And when the LORD saw that Leah {was} hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel {was} barren.
Luke 14:26
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.
Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Matthew 10:37
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.
John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.