I have loved you, says Jehovah. Yet you say, In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau the brother to Jacob? says Jehovah; yet I loved Jacob,

and I have hated Esau and have made his mountains and his inheritance a desolation for the jackals of the wilderness.

When Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, He has therefore given me this one also. And she called his name Simeon.

If a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is of her who is hated,

He who withholds the rod hates his son, but he who loves him chastens him promptly.

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, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it unto eternal life.