47 Bible Verses about Intimacy

All things have been delivered to me from my Father. Only the Father knows the Son, and only the Son knows the Father. The Son tells others about the Father so that they can know him too.

Then a voice from heaven said: This is my Son whom I love and whom I have approved.

Then a voice came from heaven: You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.

Holy Spirit descended upon him in a bodily form like a dove. A voice came out of heaven. He said: You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.

The Father loves the Son. He shows him all of the things he does. He will show him greater works than these. And you will marvel.

The Father and I are one (united in purpose).

Do you not believe that I am with the Father and that the Father is with me? The words I say to you are not from me, but the Father dwells with me and does his works. Believe me that I am with the Father and the Father is with me, or else believe me because of the works.

May they all be united (in agreement) as one. Just as you, Father, are with me, and I am with you. Help them be united with us! That way the world may believe that you sent me.

This is everlasting life that they should have *deep, intimate knowledge of you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have commissioned. *(Greek: ginosko: know, perceive, be sure, understand)

My eyes will be open! My ears will pay attention to the prayers offered at this place. I have chosen and declared this Temple holy so that my name may be placed there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

He has given his people a strong leader, someone praiseworthy for his faithful ones, for the people of Israel, the people who are close to him. Praise Jehovah!

I desire loving-kindness (mercy), not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

He that has my commandments, and obeys them loves me. My Father will love the person who loves me. I will love him and disclose myself to him.

Remain with me, and I with you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself. It must remain on the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain with me.

With weeping they will come. By supplication I will lead them. I will make them walk by streams of waters on a straight path in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jehovah has compassion for those who reverence him just as a father has compassion for his children.

Ephraim, O Ephraim my dear delightful son! Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him. My heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him, declares Jehovah.

When Israel was a young man, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images. It was I who taught Ephraim to walk. I took them in my arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them.read more.
I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.

For you have not received a spirit of bondage again causing fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Father, Father! (Chaldee: Abba, meaning father).

Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.

Your sons will marry you like a young man marries a woman. Your God will rejoice over the same way a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

Do not be afraid. You will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace. You will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. For your Maker is your husband. Jehovah of Hosts is his name! The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He is called the God of all the earth. Jehovah will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit; a wife, who married young, only to be rejected, says your God.read more.
For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you, says Jehovah your Redeemer.

Return, you disobedient people, proclaims Jehovah. I am your husband. I will take you, one from every city and two from every family, and bring you to Zion.'

I will engage you to me for a very long time! Yes I will engage you to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.

Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it. This is so he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word. So he will be able to present the congregation to himself as a glorious congregation, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It should be holy and without blemish.

Let us be glad, rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife made herself ready.

Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Jehovah God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female. God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.

This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

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

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife.

What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one (united with her) body? For he said: Two will be one flesh.

In this way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself.

They will forbid marrying, [and command] to abstain from food, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

Jacob worked seven years for Laban. The time seemed like only a few days, because he loved Rachel so much.

He gave a double portion to Hannah. Hannah was very dear to him even though Jehovah had not given her children.

A man with friends must be friendly! A friend sticks closer than a brother.

A friend loves at all times. A true brother is born for adversity.

Do not forget your friends or your father's friends. If you are in trouble, do not ask a relative for help. A nearby neighbor can help you more than relatives who are far away.

No man has greater love then this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

David finished talking to Saul. Jonathan became David's closest friend. He loved David as much as he loved himself.

and on the way Elijah said to Elisha: Stay here for Jehovah has ordered me to go to Bethel. But Elisha answered: I swear by my loyalty to the living God Jehovah and to you that I will not leave you. So they went on to Bethel.

The Lord grants mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains.

Jacob (Israel) loved Joseph more than all his sons because Joseph had been born in Israel's old age. So he made Joseph a special multicolored robe with long sleeves.

Ruth replied: Do not ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

The king was shaken by the news. He went to the room above the gate and cried. My son Absalom! He said. My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!