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Romans 9:11
Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

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Genesis 25:21
Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.

Genesis 25:24
And when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her body.

Genesis 25:25
And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau.

Genesis 25:27
And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Genesis 25:28
Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob.

Hosea 12:3
In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;

Matthew 1:2
The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;

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Genesis 27:29
Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.

Genesis 27:33
And in great fear Isaac said, Who then is he who got meat and put it before me, and I took it all before you came, and gave him a blessing, and his it will be?

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Genesis 48:17
Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh.

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Deuteronomy 1:39
And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.

Isaiah 7:15
Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.

Isaiah 7:16
For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.

Jonah 4:11
And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

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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.

Proverbs 16:4
The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.

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:

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.

Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.

Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

Acts 13:48
And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith.

Romans 4:6
As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,

Romans 9:22
What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

1 Corinthians 1:30
But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

Ephesians 1:10
The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,

2 Timothy 2:10
But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

2 Timothy 2:19
But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.

1 Peter 2:9
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

1 John 4:19
We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

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Isaiah 14:24
The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:

Isaiah 14:26
This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

Isaiah 14:27
For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

Isaiah 46:10
Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;

Isaiah 46:11
Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.

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Romans 9:2
That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

Romans 9:3
For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

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Matthew 24:31
And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Acts 11:23
Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

Romans 1:7
To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 9:6
But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

Romans 9:25
As he says in Hosea, They will be named my people who were not my people, and she will be loved who was not loved.

Romans 9:32
Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;

1 Corinthians 1:28
And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

Galatians 1:6
I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;

Ephesians 2:8
Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

Philippians 2:13
For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

Colossians 3:12
As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

1 Peter 1:2
Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.

1 Peter 2:4
To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;

1 John 4:10
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

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Romans 11:12
Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

Romans 11:15
For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

Romans 11:17
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

Romans 11:21
For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.

Romans 11:30
For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,

Romans 11:31
So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.

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Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:28
For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

Romans 4:2
For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.

Romans 9:26
And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.

1 Timothy 6:12
Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

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