They have drawn you: we will run after you, for the smell of your ointments: the king has brought me into his closet: let us rejoice and be glad in you; we will love your breasts more than wine: righteousness loves you.

Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yes, brethren, drink abundantly.

Thus have I appeared before You in the sanctuary, that I might see Your power and Your glory.

Thus will I bless You during my life: I will lift up my hands in Your name.

For one day in Your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him."

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and we will make [Our] home with him.

Behold, I stand at the door and I am knocking. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and I will dine with him, and he with Me.

The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.

They have drawn you: we will run after you, for the smell of your ointments: the king has brought me into his closet: let us rejoice and be glad in you; we will love your breasts more than wine: righteousness loves you.

And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden. And Haman began to plead with the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case.

[ 6:3] You are fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as armies set in array.

Have You not made a hedge about him, and about his household, and all his possessions round about? And have You not blessed the works of his hands, and multiplied his substance upon the land?

You have given a token to them that fear You, that they might flee from the bow. Pause.

And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, and He that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him shall the Gentiles trust, and His rest shall be glorious.

"Just as the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may abide in you, and that your joy may be full.

Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life on behalf of his friends.

No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things which I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Who is he that condemns? Christ is the [One] having died, but rather also having been raised, who is even at [the] right [hand] of God, who also intercedes on our behalf.

Just as it is written: "For Your sake we are put to death the whole day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter."

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,