Song of Solomon 8:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

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

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.” ’ ”

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

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

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

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.

I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.

In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.

“Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

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

We have a little sister. She has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is to be spoken for?

“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

I clothed you also with embroidered work, and put sealskin sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.