Malachi 1:2
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The Lord's Love for Israel
2 (A)“I have loved you,” says the Lord. (B)But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau (C)Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet (D)I have loved Jacob
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Isaiah 41:8-9
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Jeremiah 31:3
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3 the Lord appeared to him[a] from far away.
(A)I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore (B)I have continued (C)my faithfulness to you.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 31:3 Septuagint; Hebrew me
Deuteronomy 10:15
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15 Yet (A)the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
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Romans 9:10-13
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10 And not only so, but (A)also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of (B)him who calls— 12 she was told, (C)“The older will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, (D)“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
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Malachi 3:13-14
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13 (A)“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. (B)But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’ 14 You have said, (C)‘It is vain to serve God. (D)What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
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Malachi 3:7-8
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7 (A)From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. (B)Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. (C)But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ 8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. (D)But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ (E)In your tithes and contributions.
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Deuteronomy 32:8-14
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8 When the Most High (A)gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he (B)divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[a] of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.[b]
9 But the Lord's portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
10 “He found him (C)in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he (D)encircled him, he cared for him,
he (E)kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 (F)Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
12 (G)the Lord alone guided him,
(H)no foreign god was with him.
13 (I)He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with (J)honey out of the rock,
and (K)oil out of (L)the flinty rock.
14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat[c] of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest[d] of the wheat—
and you drank foaming wine made from (M)the blood of the grape.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:8 Or territories
- Deuteronomy 32:8 Compare Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text sons of Israel
- Deuteronomy 32:14 That is, with the best
- Deuteronomy 32:14 Hebrew with the kidney fat
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
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6 “For (A)you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be (B)a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but (C)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping (D)the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 4:37
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37 And because (A)he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them[a] and brought you out of Egypt (B)with his own presence, by his great power,
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- Deuteronomy 4:37 Hebrew his offspring after him
Romans 11:28-29
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28 As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are (A)beloved for the sake of their forefathers. 29 For the gifts and (B)the calling of God are irrevocable.
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Malachi 2:17
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The Messenger of the Lord
17 (A)You have wearied the Lord with your words. (B)But you say, “How have we wearied him?” (C)By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, (D)“Where is the God of justice?”
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Malachi 1:6-7
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The Priests' Polluted Offerings
6 (A)“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am (B)a father, where is my honor? And if I am (C)a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. (D)But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ 7 (E)By offering polluted food upon my altar. (F)But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that (G)the Lord's table may be despised.
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Jeremiah 2:31
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31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
we will come no more to you’?
Jeremiah 2:5
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5 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“What wrong did your fathers find in me
that they went far from me,
(B)and went after (C)worthlessness, and became worthless?
Isaiah 43:4
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4 Because you are precious in my eyes,
and honored, and I love you,
I give men in return for you,
peoples in exchange for your life.
Genesis 48:4
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4 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you (A)for an everlasting possession.’
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Genesis 32:28-30
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28 Then he said, (A)“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[a] for (B)you have striven with God and (C)with men, and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, (D)“Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel,[b] saying, “For (E)I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”
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- Genesis 32:28 Israel means He strives with God, or God strives
- Genesis 32:30 Peniel means the face of God
Genesis 28:13-14
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13 And behold, (A)the Lord stood above it[a] and said, (B)“I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. (C)The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. 14 Your offspring shall be like (D)the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and (E)your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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- Genesis 28:13 Or beside him
Genesis 28:3-4
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3 (A)God Almighty[a] bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. 4 May he give (B)the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of (C)the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!”
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- Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El Shaddai
Genesis 27:33
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33 Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.”
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Genesis 27:27-30
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27 So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments (A)and blessed him and said,
“See, (B)the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!
28 May God give you of (C)the dew of heaven
and of the fatness of the earth
and (D)plenty of grain and wine.
29 Let peoples serve you,
and nations (E)bow down to you.
(F)Be lord over your brothers,
and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
(G)Cursed be everyone who curses you,
and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”
30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, 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,
and two peoples from within you[a] shall be divided;
(B)the one shall be stronger than the other,
(C)the older shall serve the younger.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 25:23 Or from birth
Luke 10:29
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29 But he, (A)desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
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