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NASB | Romans 9:13 Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 9:13 As it is written and forever remains written, "JACOB I LOVED (chose, protected, blessed), BUT ESAU I HATED (held in disregard compared to Jacob)." [Mal 1:2, 3] |
Subject: Why does God love Jacob but reject Esau? |
Bible Note: Thank you Darcy and Hank, I am a new Christian, and my husband and I are attend a weekly small group and we are studying Romans. I really appreciate what you all have to say to help me understand God's word. Thank you Darcy I do understand that God didn't reject Esau, as he never rejects anyone. But it was so hard to understand how God could hate anyone. But as I hear and read more I am begining to understand that it isn't a personal hate for one person but maybe as you said as a nation. God has our life mapped out before we are even born and could it be that he knew that Easau would want things of earthly value, even so much as to give up his birthright? So to show God's almighty power that He elects even between two sons from the same parents, and the one he elects prospers and the other doesn't? |