Hosea 12:3
In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
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- Genesis 25:26 After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
- Genesis 32:24–26 So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- Romans 9:11 Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,