And if your brother by your father or mother, or your son, or daughter, or your wife in your bosom, or friend who is equal to your own soul, entreat you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known,

you shall not consent to him, neither shall you hearken to him; and your eye shall not spare him, you shall feel no regret for him, neither shall you at all protect him:

Who says to his father and mother, I have not seen you; and he knew not his brethren, and he refused to know his sons; he kept Your oracles, and observed Your covenant.

For whom have I in heaven [but You]? And what have I desired upon the earth besides You?

My heart and my flesh have failed; [but] God [is the strength] of my heart, and God is my portion forever.

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.

More than that I also consider all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have sustained the loss of all things, and I consider them to be rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

And he went in to Rachel; and he loved Rachel more than Leah; and he served him seven other years.

And when the Lord God saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

And if a man has two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him [children], and the son of the hated should be firstborn;

You will separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death.

For I shall not live forever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

So I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was evil before me. For all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

And who knows whether he will be wise, or a fool? And whether he will have power over all my labor in which I labored, and in which I grew wise under the sun? This is also vanity.

I have loved you, says the Lord. And you said, How have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? Says the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,

and hated Esau and laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?

He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it for eternal life.

As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

But I count myself as nothing; nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, so that I may complete my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear solemn testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.