"I have loved you," says the LORD. But you ask: "How have You loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" [This is] the LORD's declaration. "Even so, I loved Jacob,

but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and [gave] his inheritance to the desert jackals."

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

She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, "The LORD heard that I am unloved and has given me this [son] also." So she named him Simeon.

"If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, and if the unloved wife has the firstborn son,

The one who will not use the rod hates his son, but the one who loves him disciplines him diligently.

The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

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

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.