Jacob was in love with Rachel, so he said, "I will work seven years for you, if you will let me marry Rachel."

Laban answered, "I would rather give her to you than to anyone else; stay here with me."

Wait until the week's marriage celebrations are over, and I will give you Rachel, if you will work for me another seven years."

Find a wife and you find a good thing; it shows that the LORD is good to you.

A man can inherit a house and money from his parents, but only the LORD can give him a sensible wife.

How hard it is to find a capable wife! She is worth far more than jewels!

Her husband puts his confidence in her, and he will never be poor.

So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and seven bushels of barley to buy her.

Our ancestor Jacob had to flee to Mesopotamia, where, in order to get a wife, he worked for another man and took care of his sheep.

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

The first son that they have will be considered the son of the dead man, so that his family line will continue in Israel.

The Canaanites and everyone else in the country will hear about it. They will surround us and kill every one of us! And then what will you do to protect your honor?"

but he opposes those who do evil, so that when they die, they are soon forgotten.

May the LORD always remember their sins, but may they themselves be completely forgotten!

Your descendants would be as numerous as grains of sand, and I would have made sure they were never destroyed."

At that time I will remove the names of the idols from the land, and no one will remember them any more. I will get rid of anyone who claims to be a prophet and will take away the desire to worship idols.

Get two reliable men, the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah, to serve as witnesses."

Some time later my wife became pregnant. When our son was born, the LORD said to me, "Name him 'Quick-Loot-Fast-Plunder.'

You ask why he no longer accepts them. It is because he knows you have broken your promise to the wife you married when you were young. She was your partner, and you have broken your promise to her, although you promised before God that you would be faithful to her.

Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.