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Matthieu 10:37
“ Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. (niv)
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Deutéronome 21:15
If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, (niv)
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1 Samuel 2 21
And the Lord was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord. (niv)
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Psaumes 127:3
Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. (niv)
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Genèse 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. (niv)
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Genèse 30:1-2
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob,“ Give me children, or I’ll die!”Jacob became angry with her and said,“ Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” (niv)
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1 Samuel 1 27
I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. (niv)
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Genèse 29:30
Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years. (niv)
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Exode 3:7
The Lord said,“ I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. (niv)
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Genèse 25:21
Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. (niv)
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1 Samuel 1 20
So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying,“ Because I asked the Lord for him.” (niv)
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Genèse 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; (niv)
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Malachie 1:3
but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.” (niv)
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Genèse 27:41
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself,“ The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.” (niv)
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Luc 14:26
“ If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters— yes, even their own life— such a person cannot be my disciple. (niv)
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Matthieu 6:24
“ No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. (niv)
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Juges 13:2-3
A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth.The angel of the Lord appeared to her and said,“ You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. (niv)
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Genèse 20:18-21:2
for the Lord had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised.Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. (niv)
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Jean 12:25
Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. (niv)
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1 Samuel 1 5
But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the Lord had closed her womb. (niv)
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Luc 1:7
But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old. (niv)