Genesis 37:4

The Passion Translation

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than he loved them, they hated him and would not speak a kind word to him.

Cross References

Genesis 27:41

Esau hated Jacob because he stole his blessing. He said to himself, “In a short time my father will be gone. After the time for mourning his death has passed, I will kill my brother Jacob!”

Genesis 37:11

So his brothers grew more jealous of him, but his father kept pondering Joseph’s dream.

Genesis 37:5

One night Joseph had a dream, and when he shared it with his brothers, they hated him even more!

Genesis 4:5

but with Cain and his offering, Yahweh was not pleased, making Cain very furious and resentful.

Genesis 49:23

Persecutors fiercely attacked him; they pursued him with their bow and arrows.

Psalm 38:19

My enemies are many. They hate me and persecute me, though I’ve done nothing against them to deserve it.

Psalm 69:4

I can’t even count all those who hate me for no reason. Many influential men want me silenced, yet I’ve done nothing against them. Must I restore what I never took away?

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers and relatives have betrayed you, and are in full pursuit of you. Don’t believe them when they speak to you as friends.”

Mark 3:25

and a fragmented household will not be able to stand, for it is divided.

Titus 3:3

For it wasn’t that long ago that we behaved foolishly in our stubborn disobedience. We were easily led astray as slaves to worldly passions and pleasures. We wasted our lives in doing evil, and with hateful jealousy we hated others.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates a fellow believer lives in the darkness—stumbling around in the dark with no clue where he is going, for he is blinded by the darkness.

1 John 3:10

Here is how God’s children can be clearly distinguished from the children of the Evil One. Anyone who does not demonstrate righteousness and show love to fellow believers is not living with God as his source.

1 John 3:12

We should not be like Cain, who yielded to the Evil One and brutally murdered his own brother, Abel. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s righteous.

1 John 4:20

Anyone can say, “I love God,” yet have hatred toward another believer. This makes him a phony, because if you don’t love a brother or sister, whom you can see, how can you truly love God, whom you can’t see?