Verse 13
Romans 9:13
World English Bible
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Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
Original Language Text
greek
⸀καθὼς γέγραπται· Τὸν Ἰακὼβ ἠγάπησα, τὸν δὲ Ἠσαῦ ἐμίσησα.
English Translation
As it is written: "I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau."
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Chapter 9 Context
1
I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
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that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
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For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives accordi...
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who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the serv...
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of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God (Eloh...
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But it is not as though the word of God (Elohim) has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, t...
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Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be a...
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That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God (Elohim), but the children of t...
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For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
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Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
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For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God (Elohim) a...
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it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
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Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
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What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God (Elohim)? May it never be!
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For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I...
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So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God (Elohim) who has mercy.
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might...
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So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
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You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
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But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God (Elohim)? Will the thing formed ask him who form...
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Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor,...
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What if God (Elohim), willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much pati...
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and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforeha...
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us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
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As he says also in Hosea,
“I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people;
and her ‘beloved,...
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“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
There they will be...
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Isaiah cries concerning Israel,
“If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea,...
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for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,
because the LORD will make a short wo...
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As Isaiah has said before,
“Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed,
we would have become like...
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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righte...
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but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
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Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over th...
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even as it is written,
“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense;
and no one wh...
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