Hosea 12:3
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3 In the womb he tried to supplant his brother,
and in his manhood he strove with God.(A)
Genesis 25:26
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26 Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob.[a] Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.(A)
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- 25.26 That is, he takes by the heel or he supplants
James 5:16-18
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16 Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.(A) 17 Elijah was a human like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.(B) 18 Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded its harvest.(C)
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Romans 9:11
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11 even before they had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose of election might continue,
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Genesis 32:24-28
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24 Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.(A) 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.”(B) 27 So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 Then the man[a] said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[b] for you have striven with God and with humans[c] and have prevailed.”(C)
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