²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

⁷ It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.^(A)

² and walk in love, as Christ loved us^[a] and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.^(A)

⁶⁷ Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.^(A)

¹⁴ For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.^(A)

²⁶ Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know very well the service I have given you.”