Song of Songs 8:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Oh, that you were like my brother, who nursed at my mother's breasts! When I find you outside, I would kiss you, and I would not be despised.

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  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: he is just, and endowed with salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
  • Mal 3:1 : 1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Ps 45:10-11 : 10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people, and your father's house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and you shall worship him.
  • Ps 102:16-17 : 16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer.
  • Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  • Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
  • Isa 60:14 : 14 Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet, and they shall call you, The City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 66:11-12 : 11 That you may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 12 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall you nurse, you shall be carried on her sides, and be dandled on her knees.
  • Hag 2:7 : 7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Luke 2:38 : 38 And coming in that instant, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
  • Luke 7:45-48 : 45 You gave me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in has not ceased to kiss my feet. 46 My head with oil you did not anoint: but this woman has anointed my feet with ointment. 47 Therefore I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little. 48 And he said to her, Your sins are forgiven.
  • Luke 9:26 : 26 For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed, when he comes in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 He who hears you hears me; and he who despises you despises me; and he who despises me despises him who sent me.
  • Luke 10:23-24 : 23 And he turned to his disciples and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see: 24 For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.
  • Luke 12:8 : 8 Also I say to you, Whoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God.
  • Luke 18:9 : 9 And he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others:
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
  • John 3:13 : 13 No man has ascended to heaven but he who came down from heaven, even the Son of Man who is in heaven.
  • John 7:46-52 : 46 The officers answered, No man ever spoke like this man. 47 Then the Pharisees answered them, Are you also deceived? 48 Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed. 50 Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them, 51 Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing? 52 They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.
  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came out and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me.
  • John 9:25-38 : 25 He answered and said, Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. 26 Then they said to him again, What did he do to you? how did he open your eyes? 27 He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear: why do you want to hear it again? will you also be his disciples? 28 Then they reviled him, and said, You are his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 29 We know that God spoke to Moses: as for this fellow, we do not know where he is from. 30 The man answered and said to them, Well, here is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where he is from, yet he has opened my eyes. 31 Now we know that God does not hear sinners: but if any man is a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears. 32 Since the world began it has never been heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. 34 They answered and said to him, You were completely born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out. 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he found him, he said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God? 36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe in him? 37 And Jesus said to him, You have both seen him, and it is he who talks with you. 38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him.
  • John 13:3 : 3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was going to God;
  • John 16:28 : 28 I came forth from the Father and have come into the world: again, I leave the world and go to the Father.
  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are:
  • Song 1:2 : 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.
  • Ps 51:17 : 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
  • Matt 13:16-17 : 16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things you see but did not see them, and to hear the things you hear but did not hear them.
  • Mark 12:42-44 : 42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a penny. 43 So he called his disciples to him and said to them, 'Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury; 44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.'
  • Mark 14:6-9 : 6 And Jesus said, Leave her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a good work on me. 7 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good; but me you do not have always. 8 She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial. 9 Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done shall be spoken of in memory of her.
  • Luke 2:26-32 : 26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the law, 28 then he took him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 29 Lord, now you let your servant depart in peace, according to your word, 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation, 31 which you have prepared before the face of all people, 32 a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But God forbid that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
  • Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But what things were gain to me, those I have counted as loss for Christ. 8 Indeed, I count all things as loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ,
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
  • Heb 2:9-9 : 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone. 10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying, I will declare Your name to my brethren, in the midst of the church I will sing praise to You. 13 And again, I will put my trust in Him. And again, Behold, I and the children whom God has given me. 14 Since then the children partake of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil;
  • Heb 9:26-28 : 26 For then He would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and to those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
  • Ps 2:12 : 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

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    4I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken my love until he pleases.

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    1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I did not find him.

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    3The watchmen who go about the city found me: to whom I said, Have you seen him whom my soul loves?

    4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

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    8We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day she is spoken for?

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    9I have compared you, my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

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    2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.

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    19Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.

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    12A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

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    10I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who found favor.

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    18(For from my youth he was raised with me as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

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    27And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

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    2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;