²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

¹² And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

⁷ Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

²⁶ Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

⁶ Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

⁷ Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

² And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.