Genesis 29:20
29:20 So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel.
But they seemed like only a few days to him
because his love for her was so great.
Genesis 29:31
The Family of Jacob
29:31 When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.
Genesis 44:20
44:20 We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old.
The boy’s
brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left,
and his father loves him.’
Genesis 44:27
44:27 “Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.
Deuteronomy 21:15
Laws Concerning Children
21:15 Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.
Matthew 6:24
6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Matthew 10:37
10:37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Luke 14:26
14:26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate
his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life,
he cannot be my disciple.
John 12:25
12:25 The one who loves his life
destroys
it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards
it for eternal life.