Song of Solomon 1Song of Solomon 2Philippians 2.1-18Song of Solomon 1
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The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
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Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.
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Sweet is the smell of your perfumes your name is as perfume running out so the young girls give you their love.
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Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
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I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
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Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun my mother's children were angry with me they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens but my vine-garden I have not kept.
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Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?
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If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.
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I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.
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Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.
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We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.
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While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.
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As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.
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My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.
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See, you are fair, my love, you are fair you have the eyes of a dove.
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See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure our bed is green.
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Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house and our boards are made of fir-trees.
Song of Solomon 2
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I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.
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As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.
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As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
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He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.
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Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples I am overcome with love.
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His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.
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I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
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The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.
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My loved one is like a roe see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.
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My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
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For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone
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The flowers are come on the earth the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land
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The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.
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O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.
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Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines our vines have young grapes.
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My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.
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Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.
Philippians 2
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If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,
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Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind
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Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself
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Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.
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Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,
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To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God
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But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men
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And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.
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For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name
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So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,
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And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts
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For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
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Do all things without protests and arguments
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So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
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Offering the word of life so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
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And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:
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And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.
