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

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

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.

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. {cruel: Heb. hard}

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}.

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.

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

{Whoso} findeth a wife findeth a good {thing}, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

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

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name {was} Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, {both} the beloved and the hated; and {if} the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

And Jacob said unto Laban, Give {me} my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart {is} not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength {lieth}.

I sleep, but my heart waketh: {it is} the voice of my beloved that knocketh, {saying}, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, {and} my locks with the drops of the night.

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he {was} more honourable than all the house of his father.