Quotes about Love
Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
— Genesis 25:28
Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
— Genesis 27:26
So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
— Genesis 27:27
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
— Genesis 29:10
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
— Genesis 29:11
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
— Genesis 29:18
Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
— Genesis 29:19
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
— Genesis 29:20
Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
— Genesis 29:21
Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
— Genesis 29:30
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
— Genesis 29:31
And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
— Genesis 29:32