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?

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

And she conceived again, and bore a second son to Jacob; and she said, Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, He has given to me this one also; and she called his name Simeon.

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;

He that spares the rod hates his son, but he that loves carefully chastens him.

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.

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.

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