Malachi 1:2 Cross References - MLV

2 I have loved you*, says Jehovah. Yet you* say, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, says Jehovah. Yet I loved Jacob,

Genesis 25:23

23 And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb and two peoples will be separated from your guts. And the one people will be stronger than the other people. And the elder will serve the younger.

Genesis 27:27-30

27 And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that Jehovah has blessed. 28 And God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and new wine. 29 Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed is he who curses you and blessed is he who graces you.
30 And it happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and Jacob was yet scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Genesis 27:33

33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, Who then is he who has taken game and brought it to me and I have eaten of all before you came and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.

Genesis 28:3-4

3 And God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land of your travels, which God gave to Abraham.

Genesis 28:13-14

13 And behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you I will give it and to your seed. 14 And your seed will be as the dust of the earth and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed in you and in your seed.

Genesis 32:28-30

28 And he said, Your name will be called Jacob no more, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked him and said, I beseech you, tell me your name.
And he said, Why is it that you ask for my name? And he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved.

Genesis 48:4

4 and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.

Deuteronomy 4:37

37 And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

6 For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 7 Jehovah did not set his love upon you*, nor choose you*, because you* were more in number than any people, for you* were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because Jehovah loves you*. And because he would keep the oath which he swore to your* fathers, Jehovah has brought you* out with a mighty hand and redeemed you* out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:15

15 Only Jehovah had a delight in your fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them, even you* above all peoples as at this day.

Deuteronomy 32:8-14

8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9 For Jehovah's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness. He compassed him about. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. 11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spreads abroad his wings. He took them. He bore them on his pinions.
12 Jehovah alone led him and there was no foreign god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth and he ate the increase of the field and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock, 14 butter of the herd and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

Isaiah 41:8-9

8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, 9 you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth and called from the corners of it and said to you, You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away.

Isaiah 43:4

4 Since you have been precious in my sight and honorable and I have loved you, therefore I will give men instead of you and peoples instead of your life.

Jeremiah 2:5

5 Jehovah says thus: What unrighteousness have your* fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me and have walked after vanity and have become vain?

Jeremiah 2:31

31 O generation, see you* the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to you?

Jeremiah 31:3

3 Jehovah appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.

Malachi 1:6-7

6 A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says Jehovah of hosts to you*, O priests, who despise my name. And you* say, How have we despised your name? 7 You* offer polluted bread upon my altar. And you* say, How have we polluted you? In that you* say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.

Malachi 2:17

17 You* have wearied Jehovah with your* words. Yet you* say, How have we wearied him? In that you* say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Jehovah and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?

Malachi 3:7-8

7 From the days of your* fathers you* have turned aside from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me and I will return to you*, says Jehovah of hosts. But you* say, How will we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you* rob me. But you* say, How have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.

Malachi 3:13-14

13 Your* words have been stout against me, says Jehovah. Yet you* say, What have we spoken against you? 14 You* have said, It is vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his charge and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

Luke 10:29

29 But he, wishing to make himself righteous, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

Romans 9:10-13

10 Now not only so, but also Rebecca having an impregnation from one man, our father Isaac; 11 for the children not yet having been born, nor having practiced anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to his choice might abide, not from works, but from the one who is calling. 12 It was said to her, ‘The greater will be serving the inferior.’ 13 Just-as it has been written, ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.’

Romans 11:28-29

28 According to the good-news they are indeed enemies because of you, but according to the choice, they are beloved because of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are unregrettable.

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