Romans 9:13
As it is written: Jacob I have loved: but Esau I have hated.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
In Context
12Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.
14What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid!
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
Deuteronomy 21:15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,
Malachi 1:2I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob, I have loved Jacob, etc... I have preferred his posterity, to make them my chosen people, and to lead them with my blessings, without any merit on their part, and though they have been always ungrateful; whilst I have rejected Esau, and executed severe judgments upon his posterity. Not that God punished Esau, or his posterity, beyond their desert: but that by his free election and grace he loved Jacob, and favoured his posterity above their deserts. See the annotations upon Rom. 9.
Luke 14:26If 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. Hate not, etc... The law of Christ does not allow us to hate even our enemies, much less our parents: but the meaning of the text is, that we must be in that disposition of soul, as to be willing to renounce, and part with every thing, how near or dear soever it may be to us, that would keep us from following Christ.
Matthew Henry on Romans 9:7-14
The Divine Sovereignty. ( a. d. 58.) 6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. 9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. 10 And not only this; but when… Read the whole commentary →