“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than M
Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for wh
But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from
Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives s
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you,
He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, f
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LO
So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstbor