" I have loved you," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'In what way have You loved us?' [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother?" Says the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved;

But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness."

When the LORD saw that Leah [was] unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel [was] barren.

Then she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I [am] unloved, He has therefore given me this [son] also." And she called his name Simeon.

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

He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines 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, wife and children, 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 for eternal life.