6 "Put me like a seal over your heart,

Like a seal on your arm.

For love is as strong as death,

*Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;

Its flames are flames of fire,

*The flame of the Lord.

7 "Many waters cannot quench love,

Nor will rivers flood over it;

If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love,

It would be utterly despised."

The Chorus

9 "You have *enchanted my heart, my sister, my bride;

You have *enchanted my heart with a single glance of your eyes,

With a single strand of your necklace.

2 "May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!

For your love is *sweeter than wine.

3 "Your oils have a pleasing fragrance,

Your name is like*purified oil;

Therefore the *young women love you.

15 "*How beautiful you are, my darling,

*How beautiful you are!

Your eyes are like doves."

The Bride

16 "*How handsome you are, my beloved,

And so delightful!

Indeed, our bed is luxuriant!

18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper *suitable for him."

22 And the Lord God *fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

"At last this is bone of my bones,

And flesh of my flesh;

*She shall be called *‘woman,’

Because *she was taken out of *man."

24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing

And obtains favor from the Lord.

18 Let your fountain be blessed,

And rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 Like a loving doe and a graceful mountain goat,

Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;

Be *exhilarated always with her love.

20 For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an *adulteress,

And embrace the breasts of a foreigner?

6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate."

4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it *keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

28 So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

33 Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.

14 In addition to all these things put on love, which is *the perfect bond of unity.

9 Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor; 10 for if *either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not *another to lift him up! 11 Furthermore, if two lie down together they *keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?12 And if *one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.

15 *But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And *why the one? He was seeking a godly offspring. Be careful then about your spirit, and see that none of you deals treacherously against the wife of your youth.

5 "When a man takes a new wife, he is not to go out with the army, nor be assigned any duty; he shall be free at home for one year and shall make his wife whom he has taken happy.