Song of Songs 5:16

World English Bible (2000)

His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. Friends

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  • Ps 45:2 : 2 You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
  • Song 7:9 : 9 Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
  • Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
  • Jer 3:20 : 20 "Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says Yahweh.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
  • Hos 3:1 : 1 Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."
  • Gal 2:20 : 20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • Phil 3:8 : 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
  • Jas 2:23 : 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  • 1 Pet 2:6-7 : 6 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed." 7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"
  • Ps 89:6 : 6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
  • Ps 148:13 : 13 let them praise the name of Yahweh, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
  • Song 1:2 : 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
  • Song 1:16 : 16 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant. Lover
  • Song 2:1 : 1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Lover
  • Song 2:3 : 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  • Song 2:16 : 16 My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.
  • Song 6:3 : 3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies,
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

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    12 His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels.

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

    3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.

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    6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

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    6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

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    4 I had scarcely passed from them, when 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, into the room of her who conceived me.

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

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    3 Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

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    1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

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