Malachi 1:2

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,

Cross References (23)

  • Jeremiah 31:3 (9)

    The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with

  • Isaiah 41:8–9 (8)

    “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

  • Deuteronomy 10:15 (6)

    Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them,

  • Romans 9:10–13 (5)

    Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

  • Deuteronomy 4:37 (4)

    Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and gr

  • Isaiah 43:4 (4)

    Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nation

  • Malachi 3:13–14 (4)

    “Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

  • Deuteronomy 7:6–8 (4)

    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio

  • Deuteronomy 32:8–14 (4)

    When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peo

  • Malachi 3:7–8 (4)

    Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I wil

  • Malachi 2:17 (3)

    You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good

  • Romans 11:28–29 (3)

    Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriar

  • Malachi 1:6–7 (3)

    “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where

  • Genesis 28:3–4 (2)

    May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

  • Genesis 25:23 (2)

    and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people wil

  • Genesis 27:27–30 (2)

    So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is li

  • Genesis 48:4 (2)

    and told me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give t

  • Genesis 32:28–30 (2)

    Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and

  • Jeremiah 2:31 (2)

    You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense dar

  • Jeremiah 2:5 (2)

    This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed wort

  • Genesis 28:13–14 (2)

    And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isa

  • Genesis 27:33 (2)

    Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came

  • Luke 10:29 (0)

    But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”