1I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.

2Mt 17.20;21.21;Mk 11.23 I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains—but if I have no love, I am nothing.

4Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;

8I hear my lover’s voice.He comes running over the mountains,racing across the hills to me.

10My lover speaks to me.Come then, my love;my darling, come with me.

16My lover is mine, and I am his.He feeds his flock among the lilies

7Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.

16And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us.God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them.

17Love is made perfect in us in order that we may have courage on the Judgment Day; and we will have it because our life in this world is the same as Christ’s.

1I thought long and hard about all this and saw that God controls the actions of wise and righteous people, even their love and their hate. No one knows anything about what lies ahead.

7Go ahead—eat your food and be happy; drink your wine and be cheerful. It’s all right with God.

9Enjoy life with the one you love, as long as you live the useless life that God has given you in this world. Enjoy every useless day of it, because that is all you will get for all your trouble.

20For the sake of this gospel I am an ambassador, though now I am in prison. Pray that I may be bold in speaking about the gospel as I should.

21Ac 20.4;2 Ti 4.12Col 4.7,8 Tychicus, our dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord’s work, will give you all the news about me, so that you may know how I am getting along.

24May God’s grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with undying love.

5Who is this coming from the desert,arm in arm with her lover?Under the apple tree I woke you,in the place where you were born.

6Close your heart to every love but mine;hold no one in your arms but me.Love is as powerful as death;passion is as strong as death itself.It bursts into flameand burns like a raging fire.

10I am a wall,and my breasts are its towers.My lover knows that with himI find contentment and peace.

26Amam, Shema, Moladah,

34Zanoah, Engannim, Tappuah, Enam,

50Anab, Eshtemoa, Anim,

2Col 3.12,13 Be always humble, gentle, and patient. Show your love by being tolerant with one another.

13And so we shall all come together to that oneness in our faith and in our knowledge of the Son of God; we shall become mature people, reaching to the very height of Christ’s full stature.

16Col 2.19 Under his control all the different parts of the body fit together, and the whole body is held together by every joint with which it is provided. So when each separate part works as it should, the whole body grows and builds itself up through love.

1From Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ—To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as precious as ours:

6to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness;

7to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.

13She threw her arms around the young man, kissed him, looked him straight in the eye, and said,

18Come on! Let’s make love all night long. We’ll be happy in each other’s arms.

23where an arrow would pierce its heart. He was like a bird going into a net—he did not know that his life was in danger.

19Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,

36Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

42Shaalbim, Aijalon, Ithlah,

8Trust in God at all times, my people.Tell him all your troubles,for he is our refuge.

9Human beings are all like a puff of breath;great and small alike are worthless.Put them on the scales, and they weigh nothing;they are lighter than a mere breath.

12Job 34.11;Jr 17.10;Mt 16.27;Ro 2.6;Rev 2.23 and that his love is constant.You yourself, O Lord, reward everyone according to their deeds.

7Amariah, Ahitub,

11Amariah, Ahitub,

52Meraioth, Amariah, Ahitub,

1It is love, then, that you should strive for. Set your hearts on spiritual gifts, especially the gift of proclaiming God’s message.

31All of you may proclaim God’s message, one by one, so that everyone will learn and be encouraged.

39So then, my friends, set your heart on proclaiming God’s message, but do not forbid the speaking in strange tongues.

6You and I are the same in God’s sight,both of us were formed from clay.

24In mercy the angel will say, "Release them!They are not to go down to the world of the dead.Here is the ransom to set them free."

30each one saves a person’s life,and gives him the joy of living.

1Praise the Lord!Praise his name, you servants of the Lord,

11Sihon, king of the Amorites,Og, king of Bashan,and all the kings in Canaan.

21Praise the Lord in Zion,in Jerusalem, his home.Praise the Lord!

4He had thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys. They had thirty cities in the land of Gilead, which are still called the villages of Jair.

11The Lord gave them this answer: "The Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

14Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them rescue you when you get in trouble."

13From there they moved again and camped on the north side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness which extends into Amorite territory. (The Arnon was the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.)

29How terrible for you, people of Moab!You worshipers of Chemosh are brought to ruin!Your god let the men become refugees,And the women became captives of the Amorite king.

32and Moses sent men to find the best way to attack the city of Jazer. The Israelites captured it and its surrounding towns and drove out the Amorites living there.

1After this, Abram had a vision and heard the Lord say to him, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward."

18Ac 7.5 Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,

21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."

7They trample2.7: trample; Hebrew unclear. down the weak and helpless and push the poor out of the way. A man and his father have intercourse with the same slave woman, and so profane my holy name.

8At every place of worship people sleep on clothing that they have taken from the poor as security for debts. In the temple of their God they drink wine which they have taken from those who owe them money.

11Nu 6.1-8 I chose some of your sons to be prophets and some of your young men to be nazirites.2.11: nazirites: Israelites who showed their devotion to God by taking vows not to drink wine or beer or cut their hair or touch corpses (see Nu 6.1-8). Isn’t this true, people of Israel? I, the Lord, have spoken.