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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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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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1 Samuel 2 21
And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile the child Samuel grew before the Lord.
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Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The fruit of the womb is a reward.
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Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
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Genesis 30:1-2
Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob,“ Give me children, or else I die!”And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said,“ Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
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1 Samuel 1 27
For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.
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Genesis 29:30
Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban still another seven years.
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Exodus 3:7
And the Lord said:“ I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
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Genesis 25:21
Now Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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1 Samuel 1 20
So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying,“ Because I have asked for him from the Lord.”
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Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.
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Malachi 1:3
But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.”
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Genesis 27:41
So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart,“ The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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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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Judges 13:2-3
Now there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.And the Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her,“ Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
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Genesis 20:18-21:2
for the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken.For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
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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 1 5
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the Lord had closed her womb.
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Luke 1:7
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.
