Malachi 1:2
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Israel Beloved of God
2 “I(A) have loved you,” says the Lord.
“Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’
Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?”
Says the Lord.
“Yet (B)Jacob I have loved;
Isaiah 41:8-9
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8 “But you, Israel, are My servant,
Jacob whom I have (A)chosen,
The descendants of Abraham My (B)friend.
9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its farthest regions,
And said to you,
‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
Jeremiah 31:3
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3 The Lord has appeared [a]of old to me, saying:
“Yes, (A)I have loved you with (B)an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have (C)drawn you.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 31:3 Lit. from afar
Deuteronomy 10:15
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15 The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their [a]descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
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- Deuteronomy 10:15 Lit. seed
Romans 11:28-29
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28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are (A)beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are (B)irrevocable.
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Romans 9:10-13
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10 And not only this, but when (A)Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac 11 (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of (B)Him who calls), 12 it was said to her, (C)“The older shall serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, (D)“Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
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Malachi 3:13-14
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The People Complain Harshly
13 “Your(A) words have been [a]harsh against Me,”
Says the Lord,
“Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken against You?’
14 (B)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
Footnotes
- Malachi 3:13 Lit. strong
Deuteronomy 32:8-14
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8 When the Most High (A)divided their inheritance to the nations,
When He (B)separated the sons of Adam,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the [a]children of Israel.
9 For (C)the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
10 “He found him (D)in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He (E)kept him as the [b]apple of His eye.
11 (F)As an eagle stirs up its nest,
Hovers over its young,
Spreading out its wings, taking them up,
Carrying them on its wings,
12 So the Lord alone led him,
And there was no foreign god with him.
13 “He(G) made him ride in the heights of the earth,
That he might eat the produce of the fields;
He made him draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock;
14 Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock,
(H)With fat of lambs;
And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the choicest wheat;
And you drank wine, the (I)blood of the grapes.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:8 LXX, DSS angels of God; Symmachus, Lat. sons of God
- Deuteronomy 32:10 pupil
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
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6 “For you are a [a]holy people to the Lord your God; (A)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 The Lord did not set His (B)love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were (C)the least of all peoples; 8 but (D)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep (E)the oath which He swore to your fathers, (F)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of [b]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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- Deuteronomy 7:6 set-apart
- Deuteronomy 7:8 slavery
Deuteronomy 4:37
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37 And because (A)He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their [a]descendants after them; and (B)He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power,
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- Deuteronomy 4:37 Lit. seed
Malachi 3:7-8
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7 Yet from the days of (A)your fathers
You have gone away from My ordinances
And have not kept them.
(B)Return to Me, and I will return to you,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
(C)“But you said,
‘In what way shall we return?’
Do Not Rob God
8 “Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
‘In what way have we robbed You?’
(D)In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 2:17
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17 (A)You have wearied the Lord with your words;
Yet you say,
“In what way have we wearied Him?”
In that you say,
(B)“Everyone who does evil
Is good in the sight of the Lord,
And He delights in them,”
Or, “Where is the God of justice?”
Malachi 1:6-7
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Polluted Offerings
6 “A son (A)honors his father,
And a servant his master.
(B)If then I am the Father,
Where is My honor?
And if I am a Master,
Where is My reverence?
Says the Lord of hosts
To you priests who despise My name.
(C)Yet you say, ‘In what way have we despised Your name?’
7 “You offer (D)defiled food on My altar,
But say,
‘In what way have we defiled You?’
By saying,
(E)‘The table of the Lord is [a]contemptible.’
Footnotes
- Malachi 1:7 Or to be despised
Jeremiah 2:31
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31 “O generation, see the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
Or a land of darkness?
Why do My people say, ‘We [a]are lords;
(A)We will come no more to You’?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:31 have dominion
Jeremiah 2:5
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5 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“What injustice have your fathers found in Me,
That they have gone far from Me,
(B)Have followed [a]idols,
And have become idolaters?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:5 vanities or futilities
Isaiah 43:4
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4 Since you were precious in My sight,
You have been honored,
And I have (A)loved you;
Therefore I will give men for you,
And people for your life.
Genesis 48:4
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4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will (A)make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and (B)give this land to your descendants after you (C)as an everlasting possession.’
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Genesis 32:28-30
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28 And He said, (A)“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but [a]Israel; for you have (B)struggled with God and (C)with men, and have prevailed.”
29 Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.”
And He said, (D)“Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He (E)blessed him there.
30 So Jacob called the name of the place [b]Peniel: “For (F)I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
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- Genesis 32:28 Lit. Prince with God
- Genesis 32:30 Lit. Face of God
Genesis 28:13-14
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13 (A)And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: (B)“I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; (C)the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. 14 Also your (D)descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad (E)to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and (F)in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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Genesis 28:3-4
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3 “May (A)God Almighty bless you,
And make you (B)fruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;
4 And give you (C)the blessing of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
(D)In[a] which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 28:4 Lit. Of your sojournings
Genesis 27:33
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33 Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who? Where is the one who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it before you came, and I have blessed him—(A)and indeed he shall be blessed.”
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Genesis 27:27-30
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27 And he came near and (A)kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him and said:
“Surely, (B)the smell of my son
Is like the smell of a field
Which the Lord has blessed.
28 Therefore may (C)God give you
Of (D)the dew of heaven,
Of (E)the fatness of the earth,
And (F)plenty of grain and wine.
29 (G)Let peoples serve you,
And nations bow down to you.
Be master over your brethren,
And (H)let your mother’s sons bow down to you.
(I)Cursed be everyone who curses you,
And blessed be those who bless you!”
Esau’s Lost Hope(J)
30 Now it happened, as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
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Genesis 25:23
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23 And the Lord said to her:
(A)“Two nations are in your womb,
Two peoples shall be separated from your body;
One people shall be stronger than (B)the other,
(C)And the older shall serve the younger.”
Luke 10:29
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29 But he, wanting to (A)justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
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