Proverbs 5:18
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–
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- Eccl 9:9 : 9 Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.
- Song 4:12 : 12 The Wedding Night: The Delightful GardenThe Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.
- Song 4:15 : 15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
- Mal 2:14-15 : 14 Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law. 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
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19 a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
20 But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
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15 Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
- Eccl 9:8-92 verses79%
8 Let your clothes always be white, and do not spare precious ointment on your head.
9 Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.
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6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you.
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5 As a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
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3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.
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12 The Wedding Night: The Delightful GardenThe Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.
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15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
- Eccl 11:9-102 verses74%
9 Enjoy Life to the Fullest under the Fear of God Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.
10 Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.
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24 by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
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22 The one who has found a good wife has found what goodness is, and obtained a delightful gift from the LORD.
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18 Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with love’s pleasures.
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1 The Lover to His Beloved: I have entered my garden, O my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk!The Poet to the Couple: Eat, friends, and drink! Drink freely, O lovers!
- Mal 2:14-152 verses72%
14 Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.
15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
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17 who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.
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8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
9 lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
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5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words.
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17 Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.
18 She is like a tree of life to those who grasp onto her, and everyone who takes hold of her will be blessed.
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14 A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
- Song 4:9-102 verses72%
9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!
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25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;
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8 Esteem her highly and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
9 She will place a fair garland on your head; she will bestow a beautiful crown on you.”
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2 But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.
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14 The Beloved to Her Lover: Make haste, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
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25 May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.
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28 In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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10 then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.
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5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of the gazelle grazing among the lilies.
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9 But she is unique! My dove, my perfect one! She is the special daughter of her mother, she is the favorite of the one who bore her. The maidens saw her and complimented her; the queens and concubines praised her:
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2 The Desire for LoveThe Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.
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6 How beautiful you are! How lovely, O love, with your delights!
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2 in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
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5 Like a bridegroom it emerges from its chamber; like a strong man it enjoys running its course.
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24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
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5 and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
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7 The Beloved to the Maidens: I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields: Do not awaken or arouse love until it pleases!