14the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

24Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,

27Abram (also called Abraham).

1Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women?Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?Beloved

3I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.He browses among the lilies.Lover

4You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah,lovely as Jerusalem,awesome as an army with banners.

22let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,

23let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

24Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

3Bind them on your fingers.Write them on the tablet of your heart.

18Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning.Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways.Don’t go astray in her paths,

1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

4Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

7or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,

1The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.Beloved

14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossomsfrom the vineyards of En Gedi.Lover

16Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant;and our couch is verdant.Lover

7Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

13Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

22If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed.16:22 Greek: anathema. Come, Lord!16:22 Aramaic: Maranatha!

24My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.

16Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good.According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

18Draw near to my soul and redeem it.Ransom me because of my enemies.

32The humble have seen it, and are glad.You who seek after God, let your heart live.

1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

18My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

21Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

12Wisdom is radiant and doesn’t fade away;and is easily seen by those who love her,and found by those who seek her.

17For her true beginning is desire for instruction;and desire for instruction is love.

18And love is observance of her laws.To give heed to her laws confirms immortality.

3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5holding a form of godliness but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

7O holy seven of harmonious kindred! For as the seven days of creation, about religion,

13Consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection,

14where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.

7Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam,

8Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

9Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

3Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,

7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

1LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger,neither discipline me in your wrath.

2Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint.LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

4Return, LORD. Deliver my soul,and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

29Woe to you, Moab!You are undone, people of Chemosh!He has given his sons as fugitives,and his daughters into captivity,to Sihon king of the Amorites.

31Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

34The LORD said to Moses, "Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

9Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,whose height was like the height of the cedars,and he was strong as the oaks;yet I destroyed his fruit from above,and his roots from beneath.

14Flight will perish from the swift.The strong won’t strengthen his force.The mighty won’t deliver himself.

15He who handles the bow won’t stand.He who is swift of foot won’t escape.He who rides the horse won’t deliver himself.

1After these things the LORD’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

5The LORD brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So your offspring will be."

15but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.