John 3:29

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The bride always belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who helps the bridegroom just waits and listens. He is happy just to hear the bridegroom talk. That’s how I feel now. I am so happy that he is here.

Cross References

Hosea 2:19

And I will make you my bride forever. I will make you my bride with goodness and justice and with love and mercy.

Matthew 9:15

Jesus answered, “At a wedding the friends of the bridegroom are not sad while he is with them. They cannot fast then. But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them. Then they will fast.

Ezekiel 16:8

I looked you over. I saw you were ready for love, so I spread my clothes over you and covered your nakedness. I promised to marry you. I made the agreement with you, and you became mine.’” This is what the Lord GOD said.

Isaiah 54:5

Your real husband is the one who made you. His name is the Lord All-Powerful. The Holy One of Israel is your Protector, and he is the God of all the earth!

Revelation 21:9

One of the seven angels came to me. This was one of the angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues. The angel said, “Come with me. I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

Philippians 2:2

then do what will make my joy complete: Agree with each other, and show your love for each other. Be united in your goals and in the way you think.

John 16:24

You have never asked for anything in this way before. But ask in my name, and you will receive. And you will have the fullest joy possible.

1 John 1:4

We write these things to you so that you can be full of joy with us.

2 Corinthians 11:2

I am jealous for you with a jealousy that comes from God. I promised to give you to Christ. He must be your only husband. I want to give you to Christ to be his pure bride.

Luke 15:6

home, go to your friends and neighbors and say to them, ‘Be happy with me because I found my lost sheep!’

Song of Solomon 5:1

My darling my bride, I have entered my garden. I have gathered my myrrh and spice. I have eaten my honey and honeycomb. I have drunk my wine and milk. Dearest friends, eat, drink! Be drunk with love!

Matthew 25:1

“At that time God’s kingdom will be like ten girls who went to wait for the bridegroom. They took their lamps with them.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Jeremiah, go and speak to the people of Jerusalem. Tell them that this is what the Lord says: “‘At the time you were a young nation, you were faithful to me. You followed me like a young bride. You followed me through the desert, through a land that had never been used for farmland.

Isaiah 66:11

Be happy that you will receive mercy like milk coming from her breast. Jerusalem’s “milk” will satisfy you! You will drink it and enjoy her glory.

Song of Solomon 3:11

Women of Zion, come out and see King Solomon. See the crown his mother put on him the day he was married, the day he was so happy!

2 John 1:12

I have much to say to you. But I don’t want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come visit you. Then we can be together and talk. That will make us very happy.

John 17:13

“I am coming to you now. But I pray these things while I am still in the world. I say all this so that these followers can have the true happiness that I have. I want them to be completely happy.

Matthew 22:2

“God’s kingdom is like a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son.

John 3:30

He must become more and more important, and I must become less important.

John 15:11

I have told you these things so that you can have the true happiness that I have. I want you to be completely happy.