Verse 20
Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
Referenced Verses
- Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
- 1 Cor 13:7 : 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- Gen 24:67 : 67 Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
- Gen 30:26 : 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."
- Song 8:6-7 : 6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. 7 Many waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends
- 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
- Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.