Romans 9:13

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 29:31

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

Genesis 29:33

She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “Because the Lord heard that I was unloved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.

Proverbs 13:24

The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.

Matthew 10:37

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Mark 12:10

Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Luke 14:26

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

John 12:25

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

Deuteronomy 21:15

Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.