Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings are burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

and they not having wherewith to give back, he forgave both; which then of them, say thou, will love him more?'

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Feed my lambs.'

if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!

that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

Constraineth

For I have been full of words, Distressed me hath the spirit of my breast,

and they constrained him, saying, 'Remain with us, for it is toward evening,' and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.

and Peter and John answering unto them said, 'Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye;

One

All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

Then

and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

But, not as the offence so also is the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many;

For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;

Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,

and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;

for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

General references

What do I return to Jehovah? All His benefits are upon me.

'If ye love me, my commands keep,

and ye did not so learn the Christ,

we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;