23 Bible Verses about Intimacy

All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father ??nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in him is my delight."

then said a voice from heaven, 'Thou art my Son, the Beloved, in thee is my delight.'

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;

I and my Father are one ??."

Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds. Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me: ??or else, believe because of the deeds themselves.

may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us ??that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

He who possesses my commands and obeys them is he who loves me, and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and appear to him."

Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.

You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to consecrate her by cleansing her in the bath of baptism as she utters her confession, in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.

Let us rejoice and triumph, let us give him the glory! For now comes the marriage of the Lamb; his bride has arrayed herself,

And I saw the holy City, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, all ready like a bride arrayed for her husband.

said, Hence a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh?

hence a man shall leave his father and mother,

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body (for the pair, it is said, shall become one flesh),

So ought husbands to love their wives ??to love them as their own bodies (he who loves his wife loves himself).

Anything God has created is good, and nothing is to be tabooed ??provided it is eaten with thanksgiving,

To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment ??17 no, he made eager search for me when he reached Rome, and he found me