Song of Solomon 3Song of Solomon 4Song of Solomon 5Philippians 2.19->Philippians 3.1-11Song of Solomon 3
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By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.
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I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.
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The watchmen who go about the town came by me to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?
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I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
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I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.
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Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
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See, it is the bed of Solomon sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,
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All of them armed with swords, trained in war every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.
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King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.
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He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.
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Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.
Song of Solomon 4
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See, you are fair, my love, you are fair you have the eyes of a dove your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.
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Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.
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Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.
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Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.
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Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.
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Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
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You are all fair, my love there is no mark on you.
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Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
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You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!
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How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
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Your lips are dropping honey honey and milk are under your tongue and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.
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A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
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The produce of the garden is pomegranates with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,
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Spikenard and safron calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
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You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.
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Be awake, O north wind and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.
Song of Solomon 5
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I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride to take my myrrh with my spice my wax with my honey my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends take wine, yes, be overcome with love.
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I am sleeping, but my heart is awake it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.
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I have put off my coat how may I put it on? My feet are washed how may I make them unclean?
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My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.
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I got up to let my loved one in and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.
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I made the door open to my loved one but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me I went after him, but I did not come near him I said his name, but he gave me no answer.
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The keepers who go about the town overtook me they gave me blows and wounds the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
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I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.
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What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?
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My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.
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His head is as the most delicate gold his hair is thick, and black as a raven.
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His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.
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His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
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His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.
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His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.
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His mouth is most sweet yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Philippians 2
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But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you.
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For I have no man of like mind who will truly have care for you.
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For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.
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But his quality is clear to you how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.
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Him then I am hoping to send as quickly as possible, when I am able to see how things will go for me:
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But I have faith in the Lord that I myself will come before long.
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But it seemed to me necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, who has taken part with me in the work and in the fight, and your servant, sent by you for help in my need
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Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill:
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For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.
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I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.
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So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:
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Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.
Philippians 3
1-11
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For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.
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Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:
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For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
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Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:
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Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews in relation to the law, a Pharisee:
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In bitter hate I was cruel to the church I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
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But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.
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Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
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And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death
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If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.
