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VERSES ABOUT HOPE
Hope is so important in our lives, and I want to encourage you to place your hope firmly in God. Trust that you'll see the desires of your heart fulfilled. Keep that spark alive, that drive to keep moving forward until you achieve what you set out to do. Never give up, and place everything you long for in the hands of our Heavenly Father.
As a fellow Christian, never lose sight of the hope we have of seeing our Lord face to face. Because of the sacrifice Jesus Christ made, we are saved by grace and will be with Him for eternity. That's something truly amazing to hold onto.
Hoping in God frees you from fear of the future and from uncertainty. Always trust in God; He will give you the strength to overcome any difficulty. Remember, "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" (Jeremiah 29:11).
Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.
Surging waters cannot quench love; floodwaters cannot overflow it. If someone were to offer all his possessions to buy love, the offer would be utterly despised.
Oh, how handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how delightful you are! The lush foliage is our canopied bed;
You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!
Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.
Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. The Beloved to Her Lover: How rightly the young women adore you!
Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved! Oh, how beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves!
The one who finds a wife finds what is enjoyable, and receives a pleasurable gift from the Lord.
Although an assailant may overpower one person, two can withstand him. Moreover, a three-stranded cord is not quickly broken.
Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.
Surging waters cannot quench love; floodwaters cannot overflow it. If someone were to offer all his possessions to buy love, the offer would be utterly despised.
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.
It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love. The Double Refrain: Embracing and Adjuration
Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
The heart of her husband has confidence in her, and he has no lack of gain.
She brings him good and not evil all the days of her life.
And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,
By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.
Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,
so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.
Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.
Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;
for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.
The Lord’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
Although he is scornful to arrogant scoffers, yet he shows favor to the humble.
The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.
Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.
Scarcely had I passed them by when I found my beloved! I held onto him tightly and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother’s house, to the bedroom chamber of the one who conceived me.
Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.
I thank my God every time I remember you.
since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.
I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you
because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.
He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
But you did not learn about Christ like this,
if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.
You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,
to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.
Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.
Do not give the devil an opportunity.
The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.
You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear.
making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
His mouth is very sweet; he is totally desirable. This is my beloved! This is my companion, O maidens of Jerusalem!
Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,
so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.
Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.
The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you!
Who can find a wife of noble character? For her value is far more than rubies.
The heart of her husband has confidence in her, and he has no lack of gain.
She brings him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,
and has a reputation for good works: as one who has raised children, practiced hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in distress – as one who has exhibited all kinds of good works.
But do not accept younger widows on the list, because their passions may lead them away from Christ and they will desire to marry,
and so incur judgment for breaking their former pledge.
And besides that, going around from house to house they learn to be lazy, and they are not only lazy, but also gossips and busybodies, talking about things they should not.
So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.
For some have already wandered away to follow Satan.
If a believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need.
Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.
For the scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker deserves his pay.”
Do not accept an accusation against an elder unless it can be confirmed by two or three witnesses.
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters – with complete purity.
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.
Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.
A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.
those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,
those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.
And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,
and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.
I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.
If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.
But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.
So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.
A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes (only someone in the Lord).
It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.
But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is – and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.