Song of Solomon 5:16

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Yahweh is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.

When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

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

Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens!

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant.

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

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

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.

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

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

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

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

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.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.