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Song of Solomon 1

 ¹ Solomon's Song of Songs.
      

Beloved ^[a]

 ³ Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;
       your name is like perfume poured out.
       No wonder the maidens love you!

 ⁴ Take me away with you—let us hurry!
       Let the king bring me into his chambers.
      

Friends

Beloved

 ⁵ Dark am I, yet lovely,
       O daughters of Jerusalem,
       dark like the tents of Kedar,
       like the tent curtains of Solomon. ^[c]

 ⁶ Do not stare at me because I am dark,
       because I am darkened by the sun.
       My mother's sons were angry with me
       and made me take care of the vineyards;
       my own vineyard I have neglected.

 ⁷ Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock
       and where you rest your sheep at midday.
       Why should I be like a veiled woman
       beside the flocks of your friends?

Friends

Lover

 ¹⁰ Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,
       your neck with strings of jewels.

 ¹¹ We will make you earrings of gold,
       studded with silver.

Beloved

 ¹³ My lover is to me a sachet of myrrh
       resting between my breasts.

 ¹⁴ My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms
       from the vineyards of En Gedi.

Lover

Beloved

Lover

Song of Solomon 2

Beloved ^[d]

Lover

Beloved

 ⁴ He has taken me to the banquet hall,
       and his banner over me is love.

 ⁵ Strengthen me with raisins,
       refresh me with apples,
       for I am faint with love.

 ⁶ His left arm is under my head,
       and his right arm embraces me.

 ⁷ Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
       by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
       Do not arouse or awaken love
       until it so desires.

 ⁸ Listen! My lover!
       Look! Here he comes,
       leaping across the mountains,
       bounding over the hills.

 ⁹ My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag.
       Look! There he stands behind our wall,
       gazing through the windows,
       peering through the lattice.

 ¹⁰ My lover spoke and said to me,
       "Arise, my darling,
       my beautiful one, and come with me.

 ¹¹ See! The winter is past;
       the rains are over and gone.

 ¹² Flowers appear on the earth;
       the season of singing has come,
       the cooing of doves
       is heard in our land.

 ¹³ The fig tree forms its early fruit;
       the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.
       Arise, come, my darling;
       my beautiful one, come with me."

Lover

 ¹⁵ Catch for us the foxes,
       the little foxes
       that ruin the vineyards,
       our vineyards that are in bloom.

Beloved

 ¹⁷ Until the day breaks
       and the shadows flee,
       turn, my lover,
       and be like a gazelle
       or like a young stag
       on the rugged hills. ^[f]

Song of Solomon 3

 ¹ All night long on my bed
       I looked for the one my heart loves;
       I looked for him but did not find him.

 ² I will get up now and go about the city,
       through its streets and squares;
       I will search for the one my heart loves.
       So I looked for him but did not find him.

 ³ The watchmen found me
       as they made their rounds in the city.
       "Have you seen the one my heart loves?"

 ⁴ Scarcely had I passed them
       when I found the one my heart loves.
       I held him and would not let him go
       till I had brought him to my mother's house,
       to the room of the one who conceived me.

 ⁵ Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you
       by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
       Do not arouse or awaken love
       until it so desires.

 ⁶ Who is this coming up from the desert
       like a column of smoke,
       perfumed with myrrh and incense
       made from all the spices of the merchant?

 ⁷ Look! It is Solomon's carriage,
       escorted by sixty warriors,
       the noblest of Israel,

 ⁸ all of them wearing the sword,
       all experienced in battle,
       each with his sword at his side,
       prepared for the terrors of the night.

 ⁹ King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
       he made it of wood from Lebanon.

 ¹⁰ Its posts he made of silver,
       its base of gold.
       Its seat was upholstered with purple,
       its interior lovingly inlaid
       by ^[g] the daughters of Jerusalem.

 ¹¹ Come out, you daughters of Zion,
       and look at King Solomon wearing the crown,
       the crown with which his mother crowned him
       on the day of his wedding,
       the day his heart rejoiced.

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Galatians 2

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

 ⁶As for those who seemed to be important—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not judge by external appearance—those men added nothing to my message. ⁷On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles,^[a] just as Peter had been to the Jews.^{[b] 8}For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles. ⁹James, Peter^[c] and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews. ¹⁰All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

Paul Opposes Peter

 ¹⁴When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

 ¹⁵"We who are Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners' ¹⁶know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.

 ¹⁷"If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! ¹⁸If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker. ¹⁹For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. ²⁰I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ²¹I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"^[d]