Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! The Maidens to the Lover: We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover: How rightly the young women adore you!

The Beloved to Her Lover: Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?"

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!

you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

Grace be with all of those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

Constraineth

For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me.

but they urged him, "Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done." So he went in to stay with them.

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

One

All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish."

who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God's purpose at his appointed time.

but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God's grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone.

(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,

Then

But if the ministry that produced death -- carved in letters on stone tablets -- came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again -- he was lost and is found!' So they began to celebrate.

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

But the one who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

General references

How can I repay the Lord for all his acts of kindness to me?

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

But you did not learn about Christ like this,

We love because he loved us first.