His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.
and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.
For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”
Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.
Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the Lord.’”
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.
My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.
As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green;
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,
More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
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