Song of Solomon Chapter 8
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Song of Solomon 8:1

Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.

Song of Solomon 8:2

I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.

Song of Solomon 8:3

His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.

Song of Solomon 8:4

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.

Song of Solomon 8:5

Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

Song of Solomon 8:6

Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

Song of Solomon 8:7

Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.



Song of Solomon 8:8

We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?

Song of Solomon 8:9

If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.

Song of Solomon 8:10

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

Song of Solomon 8:11

Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.

Song of Solomon 8:12

My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

Song of Solomon 8:13

You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

Song of Solomon 8:14

Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.




Song of Solomon Chapter 8 (bbe)

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Bible Verses About Love

Let us love one another, for love comes from God and every one who loves is a child of God and knows God. He who loves not man does not know God, for God is love. God showed his love for us, for he sent his only Son into the world that through him we might have life. Love the stranger.


In Mark 12:30 Jesus said; And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.

And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.