Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine. They are right to love you.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of the LORD.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"

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

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

If any man does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Come, Lord.

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

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

whom not having seen you love; in whom, though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy inexpressible and full of glory?

Constraineth

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

One

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

nor do you consider that it is advantageous for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."

who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Then

But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.

Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.

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

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

You were made alive when you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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

General references

What will I give to the LORD for all his benefits toward me?

If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

But you did not learn Christ that way;

We love, because he first loved us.