Song of Solomon 6Song of Solomon 7Song of Solomon 8Philippians 3.12->Philippians 4.1-3Song of Solomon 6
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Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?
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My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.
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I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me he takes food among the lilies.
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You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem you are to be feared like an army with flags.
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Let your eyes be turned away from me see, they have overcome me 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 which come up from the washing every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.
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Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
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There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.
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My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.
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Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?
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I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.
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Before I was conscious of it, ...
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Come back, come back, O Shulammite come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.
Song of Solomon 7
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How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:
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Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.
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Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.
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Your neck is as a tower of ivory your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
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Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.
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How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.
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You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
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I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples
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And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
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I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.
11
Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field let us take rest among the cypress-trees.
12
Let us go out early to the vine-gardens let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.
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The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.
Song of Solomon 8
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Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses yes, I would not be looked down on.
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I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.
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His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.
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I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
5
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth there she was in pain at your birth.
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Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire violent are its flames.
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Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.
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We have a young sister, and she has no breasts what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?
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If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.
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I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.
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Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon he let out the vine-garden to keepers every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.
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My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.
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You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice make me give ear to it.
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Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.
Philippians 3
12->
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Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.
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Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,
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I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
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Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:
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Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.
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Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.
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For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ
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Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
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For our country is in heaven from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
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By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.
Philippians 4
1-3
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So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.
2
I make request to Euodias and Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord.
3
And I make request to you, true helper in my work, to see to the needs of those women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my brother-workers whose names are in the book of life.
