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Genesis 31:41
Yes, for twenty years I slaved in your house! I worked for fourteen years earning your two daughters, and then six more years for your flock. And you changed my wages ten times!
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Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father,“ I’ll work for you for seven years if you’ll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife.”
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Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.
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Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive.
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John 12:25
Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity.
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1 Samuel 18 17-1 Samuel 18 27
One day Saul said to David,“ I am ready to give you my older daughter, Merab, as your wife. But first you must prove yourself to be a real warrior by fighting the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought,“ I’ll send him out against the Philistines and let them kill him rather than doing it myself.”“ Who am I, and what is my family in Israel that I should be the king’s son in law?” David exclaimed.“ My father’s family is nothing!”So when the time came for Saul to give his daughter Merab in marriage to David, he gave her instead to Adriel, a man from Meholah.In the meantime, Saul’s daughter Michal had fallen in love with David, and Saul was delighted when he heard about it.“ Here’s another chance to see him killed by the Philistines!” Saul said to himself. But to David he said,“ Today you have a second chance to become my son in law!”Then Saul told his men to say to David,“ The king really likes you, and so do we. Why don’t you accept the king’s offer and become his son in law?”When Saul’s men said these things to David, he replied,“ How can a poor man from a humble family afford the bride price for the daughter of a king?”When Saul’s men reported this back to the king,he told them,“ Tell David that all I want for the bride price is 100 Philistine foreskins! Vengeance on my enemies is all I really want.” But what Saul had in mind was that David would be killed in the fight.David was delighted to accept the offer. Before the time limit expired,he and his men went out and killed 200 Philistines. Then David fulfilled the king’s requirement by presenting all their foreskins to him. So Saul gave his daughter Michal to David to be his wife.
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Genesis 31:15
He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. And after he sold us, he wasted the money you paid him for us.
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Deuteronomy 21:15
“ Suppose a man has two wives, but he loves one and not the other, and both have given him sons. And suppose the firstborn son is the son of the wife he does not love.
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Matthew 10:37
“ If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.
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Luke 14:26
“ If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else— your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters— yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.
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Matthew 6:24
“ No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money.
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Genesis 44:27
“ Then my father said to us,‘ As you know, my wife had two sons,
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Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and there he earned a wife by tending sheep.
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Genesis 30:25-26
Soon after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“ Please release me so I can go home to my own country.Let me take my wives and children, for I have earned them by serving you, and let me be on my way. You certainly know how hard I have worked for you.”
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Genesis 44:20
And we responded,‘ Yes, my lord, we have a father who is an old man, and his youngest son is a child of his old age. His full brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him very much.’