God’s Sovereign Choice
Romans 9:13
In 9 translations
- BSB
- So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”Malachi 1:2–3
- KJV
- As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
- WEB
- Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
- ASV
- Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
- LSV
- according as it has been written: “Jacob I loved, and Esau I hated.”
- YLT
- according as it hath been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'
- DBY
- according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.
- DRC
- As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.
- GNV
- As it is written, I haue loued Iacob, and haue hated Esau.
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read καθὼς (“Even as”); Westcott–Hort read καθάπερ (“just as”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Spelling of Ἠσαῦ: Tyndale House: Ἡσαῦ.
- Spelling of ἐμίσησα.¶: Tyndale House: ἐμείσησα.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: καθὼς. Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read καθὼς; Westcott and Hort (1881) read καθάπερ.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- καθὼς γέγραπται· Τὸν Ἰακὼβ ἠγάπησα, τὸν δὲ Ἠσαῦ ἐμίσησα.
- RP2018
- Καθὼς γέγραπται, Τὸν Ἰακὼβ ἠγάπησα, τὸν δὲ Ἠσαῦ ἐμίσησα.
- TR-Boyd
- Καθὼς γέγραπται, Τὸν Ἰακὼβ ἠγάπησα, τὸν δὲ Ἠσαῦ ἐμίσησα.
- SCR1894
- καθως γεγραπται τον ιακωβ ηγαπησα τον δε ησαυ εμισησα
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- Malachi 1:2–3“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and…
- Genesis 29:33Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.
- Deuteronomy 21:15If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
- Genesis 29:31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
- Proverbs 13:24He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
- Matthew 10:37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- John 12:25Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
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