Old/New Testament
4 “Behold, you are fair, my love. Behold, you are fair! Your eyes are like doves. Among your locks your hair is like the flock of goats which look down from the mountain of Gilead.
2 “Your teeth are like a flock of sheep in good order, which go up from the washing, from which each one brings out twins. And none is barren among them.
3 “Your lips are like a thread of scarlet. And your talk is comely. Your temples are as a piece of a pomegranate within your locks.
4 “Your neck is as the tower of David, built for defense. A thousand shields hang in it, and all the targets of the strong men.
5 “Your two breasts are as two fawns, twins of a gazelle, feeding among the lilies.
6 “Until the day breaks and the shadows fly away, I will go into the mountain of myrrh, and to the mountain of incense.
7 “You are all fair, my love, and there is no spot in you.
8 “Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon. And look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, and from the mountains of the leopards.
9 “My sister, my spouse, you have wounded my heart. You have wounded my heart with one of your eyes, with a chain of your neck.
10 “My sister, my spouse, how fair is your love? How much better is your love than wine, and the savor of your ointments than all spices?
11 “Your lips, my spouse, drop as honeycombs. Honey and milk are under your tongue. And the savor of your garment is as the savor of Lebanon.
12 “My sister, my spouse, is as an enclosed garden, as a spring shut up, and a fountain sealed up.
13 “Your plants are as an orchard of pomegranates with sweet fruits: henna, spikenard,
14 “spikenard and saffron, calamus, and cinnamon, with all the trees of incense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
15 “O fountain of the gardens! O well of living waters and the springs of Lebanon!”
16 “Arise, O North, and come, O South. Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my well-beloved come to his garden and eat his pleasant fruit.”
5 “I have come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, I gathered my myrrh with my spice. I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, and make you merry, O well-beloved.”
2 “I sleep, but my heart wakes. It is the voice of my well-beloved who knocks, saying, ‘Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. For my head is full of dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.’
3 “I have taken off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet. How shall I soil them?
4 “My well-beloved put in his hand by the opening, and my core was moved toward him.
5 “I rose up to open to my well-beloved, and my hands did drop down myrrh, and my fingers pure myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.
6 “I opened to my well-beloved, but my well-beloved had turned away and was gone. My heart failed when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him. I called him, but he did not answer me.
7 “The watchmen who were around the city found me. They struck me and wounded me. The watchmen of the walls took away my veil from me.
8 “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my well-beloved, that you tell him that I am lovesick!”
9 “O the fairest among women! What is your well-beloved more than other well-beloved? What is your well-beloved more than another lover, that you so charge us?”
10 “My well-beloved is white and ruddy, chief among ten thousand.
11 “His head is as fine gold, his locks curled and black as a raven.
12 “His eyes are like doves upon the rivers of waters, washed with milk and fittingly set.
13 “His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers, and his lips like lilies dropping down pure myrrh.
14 “His hands are as rings of gold set with the chrysolite, his belly like white ivory covered with sapphires.
15 “His legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold, his face as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 “His mouth is as sweet things, and he is wholly delectable. This is my well-beloved, and this is my lover, O daughters of Jerusalem!”
17 “O fairest among women! Where has your well-beloved gone? Where has your well-beloved turned aside, so that we may seek him with you?”
3 O, foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth; before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
2 This only would I learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish, that after you have begun in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so many things in vain, if so be it even in vain?
5 He, therefore, who ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he do it through the works of the Law, or by the hearing of faith?
6 Rather, as Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness,
7 know you therefore that those who are of faith, are the same children of Abraham.
8 For the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles through faith, preached the Gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you shall all the Gentiles be blessed.”
9 So then those who are of faith, are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the Law, are under the curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the Law, to do them.”
11 And it is evident that no one is justified by the Law, in the sight of God. For the just shall live by faith.
12 And the Law is not of faith: but the one who shall do those things, shall live in them.
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”).
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus. That we might receive the promise of the Spirit, through faith.
15 Brothers, I speak as man does: Though it be but man’s covenant, when it is confirmed, no one ignores it, or adds anything to it.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He does not say, “and to the seeds”, as speaking of many, but, “And to your seed”, as of one, which is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the covenant that was previously confirmed by God in Christ, cannot be annulled by the Law, which was four hundred and thirty years after; so that it should make the promise of no effect.
18 For if the inheritance is of the Law, it is no more by the promise. But God gave it freely to Abraham by promise.
19 Why, then, the Law? It was added because of the transgressions; till the seed came, to which the promise was made. And it was ordained by Angels in the hand of a Mediator.
20 However, there is no Mediator of one. But God is one.
21 Is the Law, then, against the promises of God? Never may it be! For if there had been a Law given which could have given life, surely righteousness should have been by the Law.
22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise, by faith in Jesus Christ, should be given to those who believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the Law, as under guard, and locked up, until that faith which should be revealed.
24 So that the Law was our tutor, bringing us to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.
25 But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26 For you are all the sons of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.
27 For all you who were baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Grecian. There is neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs by promise.
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