Malachi 1:2
You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,
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Malachi 1:2
You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,
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Malachi 1:4
Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.
Malachi 1:5
And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel.
Malachi 1:6
A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
Malachi 1:1
The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
Malachi 3:13
Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?
Genesis 29:31
Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.
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Deuteronomy 10:15
But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.
Isaiah 43:4
Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
1 Samuel 12:22
For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.
Isaiah 41:8
But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:
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Romans 9:15
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
Romans 9:16
So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.
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