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Genesis 31:41
Thus I have been in your house twenty years; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
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Genesis 29:18
Now Jacob loved Rachel; so he said,“ I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter.”
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Genesis 29:20
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her.
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Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
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John 12:25
He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
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1 Samuel 18 17-1 Samuel 18 27
Then Saul said to David,“ Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles.” For Saul thought,“ Let my hand not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”So David said to Saul,“ Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.So Saul said,“ I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,“ You shall be my son-in-law today.”And Saul commanded his servants,“ Communicate with David secretly, and say,‘ Look, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become the king’s son-in-law.’”So Saul’s servants spoke those words in the hearing of David. And David said,“ Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king’s son-in-law, seeing I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?”And the servants of Saul told him, saying,“ In this manner David spoke.”Then Saul said,“ Thus you shall say to David:‘ The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.So when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the days had not expired;therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.
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Genesis 31:15
Are we not considered strangers by him? For he has sold us, and also completely consumed our money.
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Deuteronomy 21:15
“ If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved,
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Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
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Luke 14:26
“ If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
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Matthew 6:24
“ No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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Genesis 44:27
Then your servant my father said to us,‘ You know that my wife bore me two sons;
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Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.
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Genesis 30:25-26
And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban,“ Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country.Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you.”
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Genesis 44:20
And we said to my Lord,‘ We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, who is young; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’