Song of Songs 5:16 Cross References - ISV

¹⁶ His mouth is sweetness, and all of him is desirable. This is my beloved, this is my friend, young women of Jerusalem!

¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, even much fine gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb.

² You are the most handsome of Adam’s descendants; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

⁶ For who in the skies compares to the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the divine beings?

¹⁰³ How pleasing is what you have to say to me— tasting better than honey.

¹³ Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is lifted up; his majesty transcends earth and heaven.

² The Loved OneLet him kiss me over and over again! Your love is better than wine.

¹⁶ The Loved OneLook at you! You are handsome, my beloved, truly lovely. How lush is our couch.

¹ I’m a flower from Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

³ The Loved OneLike an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. In his shade I take delight and sit down, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

¹⁶ The Loved OneMy beloved belongs to me and I belong to him. He is the one who shepherds his flock among the lilies.

³ I belong to my beloved, and my beloved belongs to me. He is the one who grazes his flock among the lilies.

⁹ May your mouth be like good wine.
The Loved One May it go down smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over the lips of the sleeping ones.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ⁷ Of the growth of his government and peace there will be no end. He will rule over his kingdom, sitting on the throne of David, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from this time onward and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will accomplish this.

²⁰ Instead, like an unfaithful wife leaves her husband, so you have been unfaithful to me, house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

¹⁶ Your words were found, and I consumed them. Your words were joy and my hearts delight, because I bear your name, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies.

¹ Hosea Reconciles with His WifeThen the LORD told me: “Go love your wife again, even though she is being loved by another and is committing adultery. Love her the same way the LORD loves the people of Israel, even though they look to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

²⁰ I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

⁸ What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah

²³ And so the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” And so he was called God’s friend.

⁴ You adulterers! Don’t you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

⁶ This is why it says in Scripture: “Look! I am laying a chosen, precious cornerstone in Zion. The one who believes in him will never be ashamed.” ⁷ Therefore he is precious to you who believe, but to those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,