Genesis 29:31

If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. worthy: or, double

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.