KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Romans 9:12–13
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Romans 9:12
12It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
12It was said vnto her, The *‖elder shall serue the ‖yonger.
- Or, greater.
- Or, lesser.
- Gene. 25.23.
Romans 9:13
13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
13As it is written, *Iacob haue I loued, but Esau haue I hated.
- Mala. 1.2.
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DEFINED WORDS
Romans 9:12
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To work for, obey, attend, minister to, worship, or fulfil a purpose.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Not so old as another; less advanced in age.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 (facsimile-linked witness) · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Romans 9:13
To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Having the affection of any one.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Greatly disliked.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 12
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Open the full verse study22And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord.
23And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
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Open the full verse study47There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
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Open the full verse study14¶ And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David’s servants. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study2I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,
3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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Open the full verse study15¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
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Open the full verse study31¶ And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
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Open the full verse study33And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
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Open the full verse study26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
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Open the full verse study37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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Open the full verse study24He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
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Open the full verse study25He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
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