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 yafeh, my love; there is no mum (blemish, spot, defect, flaw) in thee.

Set me as a chotam (seal) upon thine lev, as a chotam upon thine zero'a (arm); for ahavah is strong as mavet (death); kinah (jealousy) as unyielding as Sheol; the flames thereof are flames of eish, the flame of Hashem.

Dodi (my beloved) is mine, and I am his; he feedeth among the lilies.

So also the ba'alim ought to show ahavah for their own nashim as their own gufim; the one with ahavah for his own isha has ahavah for himself,

Ahavah suffers long; ahavah is kind; ahavah does not have kinah; ahavah does not brag; ahavah is not puffed up in ga'avah (conceit, pride);ahavah does not behave shamelessly; ahavah does not in anochiyut insist on its own way; ahavah is not touchy and vindictive, keeping a record of wrongs.Ahavah does not find simcha in evil, but rejoices in HaEmes.Ahavah covers all things, believes all things, has tikvah (hope), even savlanut, for all things.

Ahavah never fails. However, divrei nevu'ah will be abolished; leshonot will cease; da'as will come to an end.

Ba'alim, have ahavah for your nashim, as also Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach has ahavah for the Brit Chadasha Kehillah and gave Himself up on behalf of her,

Set me as a chotam (seal) upon thine lev, as a chotam upon thine zero'a (arm); for ahavah is strong as mavet (death); kinah (jealousy) as unyielding as Sheol; the flames thereof are flames of eish, the flame of Hashem.Mayim rabbim (many waters) cannot quench HaAhavah, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the wealth of his bais for ahavah, it would be utterly scorned.

Mayim rabbim (many waters) cannot quench HaAhavah, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the wealth of his bais for ahavah, it would be utterly scorned.

And to all these things add ahavah, which is the agudah of tamimim.

Chaverim, let us have ahavah one for another, because ahavah is of Hashem, and everyone having ahavah has been born of Hashem and has da'as of Hashem.

Ahavah (agape) does no wrong to the re'a (neighbor); therefore the fulfillment of the Torah is ahavah.

(Shir HaMa'alot, of Sh'lomo) 1 ExceptHashem build the bais, they that build it labor in vain; except Hashem is shomer over the city, the shomair (watchman) stands guard in vain.

So they are no longer shnayim (two) but basar echad (one flesh). Therefore, whatever Hashem joined together, let no man divide asunder.

Let everything you do be done in ahavah (agape).

But the p'ri of the Ruach HaKodesh is ahavah (agape), simcha (joy), shalom (peace), savlanut (patience), nedivut (generosity, kindness), chesed (loving-kindness), ne'emanut (faithfulness),Anavah (meekness, shiflut, lowliness), shlitah atzmi (self-control)…would you not agree? — against these things there is no issur (proscription in the Torah).

Modeh Ani (I thank) my G-d upon every zikaron (remembrance) of you,

With all anavah (humility) of mind and meekness, with savlanut (longsuffering), showing forbearance to one another in ahavah,But you did not so have lernen of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach,If indeed you heard about Him and took shiurim in Him, as HaEmes is in Yehoshua.For the torah you received was that you must disrobe from your former derech of your old self, the one being corrupted according to the ta'avot of AKOV (deceitful) remiyah (guile),And to be renewed by the Ruach Hakodesh controlling your machshavot (thoughts),And to enrobe yourself in the Adam HeChadash (the new Man, humanity), having been created according to the demut Hashem in tzidkat Elokeinu and in the kedushah of HaEmes.Therefore, disrobed from Sheker (Falsehood, Lying), let us say HaEmes, each one with his re'a (neighbor), because we are evarim (members) one of another.Have ka'as and do not sin; do not let the shemesh go down on your anger.Do not leave an open door for HaSatan.Let the one stealing no longer be a ganav, but rather let the ganav get a parnasah (livelihood) and toil with his own hands at something beneficial, that he may have something to share with the one who is nitzrach (needy).Let no lashon hora proceed out of your peh, but only a dvar that is tov, for edification in accordance with the need, that it may mediate Chen v'Chesed Hashem to the ones hearing.Being eager to keep the achdus (unity) of the Ruach Hakodesh in the uniting bond of shalom;

Surely His salvation is karov (near) them that fear Him; that kavod may dwell in Artzeinu (our land).

And may Hashem cause you to grow and to overflow and abound in ahavah (agape) for one another and for kol Bnei Adam, just as also we have ahavah (agape) for you,

But now remain emunah, tikvah, and ahavah, these shalosh (three). And the greatest of these is ahavah.

Let not chesed and emes forsake thee; bind them about thy neck; write them upon the luach (tablet) of thine lev;Strive not with adam without cause, if he have done thee no ra'ah.Envy thou not the ish chamas, and choose none of his drakhim.For the perverse person is to'avat (detestable) to Hashem; but His sod (secret, intimate counsel) is with the yesharim (upright ones).The curse of Hashem is in the bais of the rasha; but He puts a bracha on the dwelling of the tzaddikim.Surely He scorneth the scorners; but He giveth chen (grace, favor) unto the anayim (lowly, humble ones).The chachamim shall inherit kavod, but shame shall be the promotion of kesilim (fools).So shalt thou find chen and seichel tov in the eyes of Elohim and adam.

For the harim (mountains) shall depart, and the geva'ot (hills) be removed; but My chesed shall not depart from thee, neither shall the Brit of My Shalom be removed, saith Merachamech Hashem (Hashemthe One having rachamim on thee).

And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave this teshuva (answer) to the Baal Torah, V'AHAVTAH ES ADONOI ELOHEICHA B'CHOL LEVAVCHA UVECHOL NAFSHECHA UVECHOL MODECHA (And thou shalt love the L-rd thy G-d with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might).This is the gedolah and rishonah mitzvah.And the second mitzvah is like it: V'AHAVTA L'REACHA KAMOCHA (And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself).

May the G-d of savlanut and of nechamah give you to live in harmony among yourselves in accordance with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,In order that with achdus of mind and voice you might give kavod to the Elohim and Avi of Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.

Cause me to hear Thy chesed in the boker; for in Thee do I trust; cause me to know the Derech wherein I should walk; for I lift up my nefesh unto Thee.

Likewise, Ba'alim (Husbands), dwell with them according to the da'as of the isha as a k'li rach (weaker vessel), showing them kavod as also being yoreshim together of the mattanah (gift) of the Chen v'Chesed HaChayyim, so that your tefillos will not be hindered.

Let the marriage Chuppah have respect in the eyes of all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for those guilty of gilui arayot (sexual immorality) and no'afim (adulterers), Hashem will judge.

This is the yom which Hashem hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

He who findeth an isha (wife) findeth tov, and obtaineth ratzon (favor) from Hashem.

AL KEN YAAZAV ISH ES AVIV V'ES IMMO V'DAVAK B'ISHTO V'HAYU L'VASAR ECHAD (Because of this a man will leave his father and his mother, and will be joined to the wife of him, and the two will be one basar).

We have ahavah because rishonah He had ahavah for us.

Thou hast ravished my lev, my sister, my kallah; thou hast ravished my lev with one of thy glances, with one link of thy necklace.

They that sow in dimah (tears) shall reap in rinnah (joyful song).

Nashim (wives), make yourselves accountable to your ba'alim (husbands), as is proper in Adoneinu.Ba'alim, have ahavah for your nashim and do not be bitter against them.

But seek first the Malchut Hashem and the Tzidkat Hashem, and all these things will be added to you.

And my G-d will fill every machsor (shortage, want) of yours according to his osher (riches) in Kavod in Moshiach Yehoshua.

Who can find an aishes chayil (a woman of valor, an excellent wife)? For her worth is far above rubies.

So G-d created humankind in His own tzelem, in the tzelem Elohim (image of G-d) created He him; zachar (male) and nekevah (female) created He them.And G-d blessed them, and G-d said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Scarcely had I passed from them, when I found him whom my nefesh loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into the bais immi (the house of my mother), and into the cheder of her that conceived me.

Mine adversaries kol hayom trample me; for they be rabbim that fight against me, Marom (Most High).

Show mishpochah (family) affection to one another in ahavah shel achvah (brotherly love). Be first in esteeming one another, in showing mutual respect.

Praise Hashem. I will praise Hashem with kol levav, in the Sod (company, council) of the Yesharim (upright ones), and in the Edah (assembly).

I will rehearse the chasadim (lovingkindnesses) of Hashem, and the tehillot Hashem, according to all that Hashem hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the Bais Yisroel, which He hath bestowed on them according to His rachamim, and according to the multitude of His chasadim.

Barzel (iron) sharpeneth barzel (iron); so one ish sharpeneth another.

But even as it has been written, Things which no eye has seen and LO SHAMU (they had not heard) nor did it come up into the heart of Bnei Adam, the things G-d prepared for the ones who have ahavah for him.

And Moshiach is before all things, and all things in Moshiach have been held together;

So that Moshiach may make His maon (dwelling place, permanent residence, home) in your levavot through emunah, being rooted and grounded in ahavah,That you may be able to have binah, together with all the Kedoshim, what is the breadth and length and height and depth,And to have da'as of the ahavah of Moshiach, which ahavah surpasses da'as, in order that you may be filled to all the melo (plentitude) of Hashem.

Now the Elohei Kol Chen v'Chesed (the G-d of all Grace), the one having bestowed upon you the kri'ah (calling) into His eternal kavod in Moshiach Yehoshua, after you have suffered tzoros for a little while, will Himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

Bear one anotherʼs burdens and thus you will fulfill the Torah of Moshiach.

I charge you, O banot Yerushalayim, that ye arouse nor awake HaAhavah (the Love) till it pleases.

But in all these things we prevail bichlal (entirely) through Him who had ahavah for us.

Ohr dawns for the tzaddik, and simchah for the yishrei lev (upright in heart).

In like manner, let your light so shine before Bnei Adam, that they may see your ma'asim tovim (good works) and give kavod (glory) to your Av sh'ba'Shomayim (Father in Heaven).

Now I exhort you, Achim b'Moshiach, b'Shem Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, that you all speak the same thing and that there not be among you machlokot (divisions of dissension), but that you may have achdus (unity) in the same mind and in the same way of thinking.

Delight thyself also in Hashem, and He shall give thee the desires of thine lev.

And let us consider how to meorer (stimulate, motivate, shtarken) one another to ahavah and mitzvos,And let us not turn away and defect from our noiheg (habitually) conducted daily minyan, as some are doing; let us impart chizzuk (strengthening, encouragement) to one another, and by so much the more as you see the Yom approaching.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am Eloheicha; I will strengthen thee; indeed, I will help thee; indeed, I will uphold thee with My yamin tzedek.

In the Yirat Hashem is strong confidence, and his banim shall have a place of refuge.

Then make my simcha (joy) shleimah (complete) by having the same lev, the same ahavah, being an agudah association with one neshamah, thinking the same machshavot (thoughts),

Thy word is a ner unto my feet, ohr unto my path.

How fair is thy love, my sister, my kallah! How much better is thy love than yayin! And the scent of thine perfumes than any spice!

And we have da'as that for those who love Hashem everything co-operates toward HaTov for those who are HaKeru'im (the summoned, called ones) according to the etzah (wisdom) of the tochnit Hashem (G-dʼs purposeful and willed plan or goal).

For we are His masterpiece, having been created in Moshiach Yehoshua for ma'asim tovim, which Hashem prepared beforehand, that the derech of our halakhah should be in them.

Bais and hon (wealth) are the nachalah avot, and a prudent isha (wife) is from Hashem.

And the roof of thy mouth like the best yayin of dodi (my beloved), that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

The Malach Hashem encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.

Therefore, as Bechirim (Chosen ones) of Hashem, Kedoshim and ahuvim, enrobe yourselves in tender feelings of rachmei Shomayim (heavenly compassion, mercy), chesed (lovingkindness), anavah (humility), shiflut (lowliness), and savlanut (longsuffering),

For, Achim B'Moshiach, you were called for “zman Cheruteinu”; only use not the Cherut for a pretext for the basar, but, through ahavah (agape), minister to one another as avadim (servants).

But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said in reply, Have you not read that HaBoreh (The Creator, Yotzer) bereshis (in the beginning) created them zachar (male) and nekevah (female)?And he said, AL KEN, YAAZAV ISH ES AVIV V'ES IMMO V'DAVAK B'ISHTO V'HAYU L'VASAR ECHAD (a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his isha (wife), and the two will be one flesh).So they are no longer shnayim (two) but basar echad (one flesh). Therefore, whatever Hashem joined together, let no man divide asunder.

If in the leshonot of Bnei Adam and malachim I speak, but I do not have ahavah, I have become only a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.But when shleimah (completion) comes, the teilvaiz (partial) will disappear.When I was a yeled, I used to speak like one, think like one, reason like one. But when I became mevugar (mature), I put away kinderyohrn.For still we see through a mirror indistinctly. But then, distinctly, panim el panim. Now I have da'as only in part; then I will have da'as fully, even as also Hashem had full da'as of me. But now remain emunah, tikvah, and ahavah, these shalosh (three). And the greatest of these is ahavah.And if I have nevu'ah and have da'as of all sodot and all da'as, and if I have all emunah so as to remove mountains, but ahavah I do not have, I am nothing.And if I'm a marbitz tzedaka and give all I possess in gemilut chasadim and if I give my body al kiddush Hashem for sereifah (death by burning), but ahavah I do not have, I have gained nothing.

He maketh milchamot to cease unto the end of ha'aretz; He breaketh the keshet (bow), and cutteth the khanit (spear); He burneth the chariots in the eish.

But they that wait upon Hashem shall renew their ko'ach; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not grow weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

I appeal to you, therefore, Achim b'Moshiach, through the rachamei Hashem (mercies of G-d), to present your geviyah, all of your being, as a korban chai (living sacrifice), kadosh (holy) and acceptable to Hashem, which is your spiritual avodas kodesh service.

Let ahavat achim (brotherly love) continue.

Practice hachnosas orchim (hospitality) with one another without kevetching,

I will run the derech of Thy mitzvot, for Thou shalt set my lev free.

I am the rose of Sharon, and the shoshan (lily) of the valleys.

Better is a meal of yarak (vegetables) where love is, than a fatted calf and sinah (hatred) therewith.

For where two or three are gathered as a Chavurah and are a Kehillah in my name, there I am in the midst of them.

And tikvah does not in the end lead to our being meyayesh (despairing) in disillusionment and bushah (shame), because the Ahavas Hashem (G-dʼs love) has been poured out in our levavot through the Ruach Hakodesh given to us.

The steps of a gever (man) konanu (are ordered, made firm) by Hashem and He delighteth in his derech.

And Hashem Elohim said, It is not tov that the adam should be alone; I will make him an ezer (a helper) suitable for him.

And have Chen v'Chesed graciousness with one another. Be kind, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, as also Hashem in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach forgave you.

A word aptly spoken is like tapukhim (apples) of zahav in settings of kesef.

Yeladim, let us not have ahavah in dvar or in lashon but in ma'aseh and in Emes.

Let ahavah (agape) be without tzevi'ut (hypocrisy). Hate what is haRah, be devoted to what is tov.

Enter into His she'arim (gates) with todah, and into His khatzerot (courts) with tehillah; be thankful unto Him, and bless Shmo.

But it is no longer Anochi (I) who lives, but Moshiach who lives in me, and the Chayyim I now live in the basar, I live by emunah, emunah in the Zun fun der Oybershter, the one having ahavah (agape) for me and having given himself over, on my behalf.

But the tachlis (purpose) of the gzeira is ahavah (love) out of a lev tahor (pure heart) and a clear matzpun (conscience) and emunah (faith) without tzevi'ut (hypocrisy).

Therefore, let us approach with bitachon the Kisse of Chesed, that we may receive rachamim and may find chesed for timely ezrah (aid).

For Hashem taketh pleasure in His people; He will crown the meek with Yeshu'ah (salvation).

A lev marpeh (sound mind) is life to the basar, but kinah (envy) is the rottenness of the atzmot (bones).

To grant unto Avelei Tziyon (Mourners of Zion), giving unto them a flower wreath instead of ashes, the shemen sasson (oil of joy) instead of avel (mourning), the garment of tehillah (praise) for the ruach of keheh (fainting, a heavy spirit); that they might be called Eilei HaTzedek (Oaks of Righteousness), the planting of Hashem, that He might be glorified.

And the second mitzvah is like it: V'AHAVTA L'REACHA KAMOCHA (And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself).

Ba'alim, have ahavah for your nashim and do not be bitter against them.

His mouth is most sweet; yea, he is machamaddim (altogether desirable). This is dodi (my beloved), and this is my friend, O banot Yerushalayim.

Therefore, treat each other as orchim ratzuy (welcome guests), as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach welcomed you, to the kavod of Hashem (glory of G-d).

Sin'ah (hatred) stirreth up medanim (dissensions), but ahavah covereth all peysha'im.

(Shir HaMa'alot) 1 Ashrei kol yerei (fearers of) Hashem; that walketh in His drakhim.For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be tov with thee.

Have simcha in Adoneinu always; again I will say it: Rejoice!

Ahavah suffers long; ahavah is kind; ahavah does not have kinah; ahavah does not brag; ahavah is not puffed up in ga'avah (conceit, pride);

Therefore shall an ish leave his av and his em, and shall cleave unto his isha: and they shall be basar echad.

Above all else, have fervent ahavah among yourselves, for AHAVAH KOL PEYSHA'IM T'CHASSEH (love covers all wrongs).

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