in embroidered [clothing]; virgins shall be brought to the king after her; her fellows shall be brought to You.

And the smell of your ointments is better than all spices: your name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love you.

[ 6:7] There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who having taken their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.

Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord; but I give judgment, as having received mercy by the Lord to be faithful.

Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress, that [it is] good for a man to be as he is:

But even if you should marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin should marry, she has not sinned. But such will have trouble in the flesh, and I would spare you.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy, for I have betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

forbidding to marry, [commanding] to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

You have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, because they are worthy.

Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His temple. And He that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.

because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and He leads them to [the] springs of [the] waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, and elect, and faithful."

Then a certain scribe approached, and said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go."

Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, "Lord, I will follow You wherever You go."

Then He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

And another also said, "Lord, I will follow You, but first permit me to say farewell to those who are at my house."

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He that follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

And if anyone serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant shall be also. If anyone serve Me, him My Father will honor.

Peter said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will lay down my life for You."

And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; because You were slain, and You redeemed us to God by Your blood, out of every tribe and language and people and nation;

Remember Your congregation which You have purchased from the beginning; You ransomed the rod of Your inheritance, this Mount Zion where You have dwelt.

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord, and of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of His glory.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's [own] possession, that you may proclaim the excellent virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

in following the Holy One of Israel, says the Lord, Israel was holiness unto the Lord, [and] the firstfruits of His increase. All that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, says the Lord.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria; they have gathered [the harvest of] the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.

I urge you, brothers (you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints)

Exercising His will He begat us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.