he loved.

Genesis 29:20, 31
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her. . . .

Genesis 44:20, 27
And we answered, 'We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.' . . .

Deuteronomy 21:15
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,

Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Matthew 10:37
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

Luke 14:26
"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be My disciple.

John 12:25
Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

served.

Genesis 29:18
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."

Genesis 30:25, 26
Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland. . . .

Genesis 31:15, 41
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered the money paid for us. . . .

1 Samuel 18:17-27
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my oldest daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD's battles." But Saul was thinking, "I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him." . . .

Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel worked for a wife; for a wife he tended sheep.