Song of Solomon 1:13

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:

Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

They prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;

I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies.

Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

“ ‘ “Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus were among your merchandise.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

“ ‘ “Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.

“ ‘ “The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders. They traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

“Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;

My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,