Genesis 29:20

Jacob Deceived

¹⁹ Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than to give her to another man; stay with me.” ²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. ²¹ Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.”

Jacob

Laban

Rachel

Hosea 12:12

Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram,
And Israel worked for a wife,
And for a wife he kept sheep.

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 30:26

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me depart; for you yourself know my service which I have rendered you.”

Song of Songs 8:6-7

“Put me like a seal over your heart,
Like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
The very flame of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:7

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.