23 Bible Verses about Intimacy

"Everything has been handed over to me by my Father; neither does any one know the Son, except the Father, nor any one know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

while a voice from heaven said, "This is my son, the beloved, In whom I delight."

and a voice from the sky. "Thou art my Son, my beloved; in thee is my delight."

heaven opened, and the Holy Spirit, in bodily form like a dove, descended upon him. and a voice came out of heaven, saying. "Thou art my Son, dearly beloved; in thee is my delight."

"For the Father loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will he show him, that you may wonder.

"I and my Father are one."

"Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father, who ever dwells in me, is doing his own work. "Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very words' sake.

that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

"It is he who has my commands and obeys them that loves me; and he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him."

"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her, in order that after cleansing her in the bath of baptism, he might sanctify her by his word, so as to present her to himself, the church glorified, without spot or wrinkle or any such blemish; but on the contrary holy and faultless.

Let us rejoice and triumph and give him the glory; For the marriage of the Lamb is come, And his bride has made herself ready,

And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

"For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall be one flesh?

"For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh;

Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body? (For God says, The two shall become one flesh.)

That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth. For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if only it is received with thankfulness.

"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

The Lord show mercy to the house hold of Onesiphorus; for many a time he refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain.