VERSES FOR INVITATIONS

Isn't it amazing how you can bring God into everything? Like when you're planning a celebration, a wedding, a birthday, a graduation... and you want to include a verse from the Bible on the invitation. There's just something so beautiful about having that little piece of God's word there.

Here you'll find some verses that might be just right for whatever you're celebrating. I hope they're a blessing to you and that you find exactly what you're looking for.

Thou art all fair, my love;\par\tab And there is no spot in thee.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart,\par\tab As a seal upon thine arm:\par\tab For love is strong as death;\par\tab Jealousy is cruel as Sheol;\par\tab The flashes thereof are flashes of fire,\par\tab A very flame of Jehovah.

My beloved is mine, and I am his:\par\tab He feedeth {\i his flock} among the lilies.

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Love suffereth long, {\i and} is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Love never faileth: but whether {\i there be} prophecies, they shall be done away; whether {\i there be} tongues, they shall cease; whether {\i there be} knowledge, it shall be done away.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Set me as a seal upon thy heart,\par\tab As a seal upon thine arm:\par\tab For love is strong as death;\par\tab Jealousy is cruel as Sheol;\par\tab The flashes thereof are flashes of fire,\par\tab A very flame of Jehovah.Many waters cannot quench love,\par\tab Neither can floods drown it:\par\tab If a man would give all the substance of his house for love,\par\tab He would utterly be contemned.\par

Many waters cannot quench love,\par\tab Neither can floods drown it:\par\tab If a man would give all the substance of his house for love,\par\tab He would utterly be contemned.\par

and above all these things {\i put on} love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.\par

{\b A Song of Ascents; of Solomon.}\par\par\tab Except Jehovah build the house,\par\tab They labor in vain that build it:\par\tab Except Jehovah keep the city,\par\tab The watchman waketh but in vain.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.}

Let all that ye do be done in love.\par

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Mercy and truth are met together;\par\tab Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also {\i do} toward you;

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.\par

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee:\par\tab Bind them about thy neck;\par\tab Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:So shalt thou find favor and good understanding\par\tab In the sight of God and man.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.

And he said unto him, {\cf6 {\b Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.}This is the great and first commandment.And a second like {\i unto it} is this, {\b Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.}

Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning;\par\tab For in thee do I trust:\par\tab Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk;\par\tab For I lift up my soul unto thee.

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with {\i your wives} according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.\par

{\i Let} marriage {\i be} had in honor among all, and {\i let} the bed {\i be} undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

This is the day which Jehovah hath made;\par\tab We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing,\par\tab And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

{\b For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.}

We love, because he first loved us.

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, {\i my} bride;\par\tab Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes,\par\tab With one chain of thy neck.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

But seek ye first the kingdom {\i of God}, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

A worthy woman who can find?\par\tab For her price is far above rubies.

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

It was but a little that I passed from them,\par\tab When I found him whom my soul loveth:\par\tab I held him, and would not let him go,\par\tab Until I had brought him into my mother's house,\par\tab And into the chamber of her that conceived me.\par

What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Praise ye Jehovah.\par\tab I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart,\par\tab In the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah, {\i and} the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

Iron sharpeneth iron;\par\tab So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

but as it is written,\par\tab {\b Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not,\par\tab And {\i which} entered not into the heart of man,\par\tab Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.}

and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.\par

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,\par\tab That ye stir not up, nor awake {\i my} love,\par\tab Until he please.\par

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Light is sown for the righteous,\par\tab And gladness for the upright in heart.

Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.\par

Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and {\i that} there be no divisions among you; but {\i that} ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Delight thyself also in Jehovah;\par\tab And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting {\i one another}; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.\par

fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence;\par\tab And his children shall have a place of refuge.

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

{\b NUN.}\par\par\tab Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,\par\tab And light unto my path.

How fair is thy love, my sister, {\i my} bride!\par\tab How much better is thy love than wine!\par\tab And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, {\i even} to them that are called according to {\i his} purpose.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.\par

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers;\par\tab But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

I am my beloved's;\par\tab And his desire is toward me.

Oh taste and see that Jehovah is good:\par\tab Blessed is the man that taketh refuge in him.

Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only {\i use} not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

And he answered and said, {\cf6 Have ye not read, that he who created {\i them} from the beginning {\b made them male and female,}and said, {\b For this cause shall a man leave {\i his} father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh}?So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.}

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.And if I have {\i the gift of} prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.And if I bestow all my goods to feed {\i the poor}, and if I give my body that I may glory, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

Be still, and know that I am God:\par\tab I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.\par

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, {\i which is} your spiritual service.

Let love of the brethren continue.

using hospitality one to another without murmuring:

I will run the way of thy commandments,\par\tab When thou shalt enlarge my heart.\par

I am a rose of Sharon,\par\tab A lily of the valleys.

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,\par\tab Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.}\par

and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.

A man's goings are established of Jehovah;\par\tab And he delighteth in his way.

And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.\par

A word fitly spoken\par\tab Is {\i like} apples of gold in network of silver.

{\i My} little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,\par\tab And into his courts with praise:\par\tab Give thanks unto him, and bless his name.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that {\i life} which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, {\i the faith} which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help {\i us} in time of need.\par

For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people:\par\tab He will beautify the meek with salvation.

A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh;\par\tab But envy is the rottenness of the bones.

to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.\par

And a second like {\i unto it} is this, {\b Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.}

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

His mouth is most sweet;\par\tab Yea, he is altogether lovely.\par\tab This is my beloved, and this is my friend,\par\tab O daughters of Jerusalem.\par

Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

Hatred stirreth up strifes;\par\tab But love covereth all transgressions.

{\b A Song of Ascents.}\par\par\tab Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah,\par\tab That walketh in his ways.For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands:\par\tab Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

Love suffereth long, {\i and} is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm {\i alone}?And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.\par

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