Old Testament
S.S. 1:1~4:15
Song 1
1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! / For your love is better than wine.
3 Your anointing oils have a pleasant fragrance; / Your name is like ointment poured forth; / Therefore the virgins love you.
4 Draw me; we will run after you — The king has brought me into his chambers — / We will be glad and rejoice in you; / We will extol your love more than wine. / Rightly do they love you.
5 I am black but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, / Like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
6 Do not look at me, because I am black, / Because the sun has scorched me. / My mother’s sons were angry with me; / They made me keeper of the vineyards, / But my own vineyard I have not kept.
7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, Where do you pasture your flock? / Where do you make it lie down at noon? / For why should I be like one who is veiled / Beside the flocks of your companions?
8 If you yourself do not know, / You fairest among women, / Go forth on the footsteps of the flock, / And pasture your young goats / By the shepherds’ tents.
9 I compare you, my love, / To a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
10 Your cheeks are lovely with plaits of ornaments, / Your neck with strings of jewels.
11 We will make you plaits of gold / With studs of silver.
12 While the king was at his table, / My spikenard gave forth its fragrance.
13 My beloved is to me a bundle of myrrh / That lies at night between my breasts.
14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna flowers / In the vineyards of En-gedi.
15 Oh, you are beautiful, my love! / Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
16 Oh, you are beautiful, my beloved; indeed, pleasant! Indeed, our couch is green.
17 The beams of our house are cedars; / Our rafters are cypresses.
Song 2
1 I am a rose of Sharon, / A lily of the valleys.
2 As a lily among thorns, / So is my love among the daughters.
3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, / So is my beloved among the sons: In his shade I delighted and sat down, / And his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me into the banqueting house, / And his banner over me was love.
5 Sustain me with raisin cakes, / Refresh me with apples, / For I am sick with love.
6 His left hand is under my head, / And his right hand embraces me.
7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, / By the gazelles or by the hinds of the fields, / Not to rouse up or awaken my love / Until she pleases.
8 The voice of my beloved! Now he comes, / Leaping upon the mountains, / Skipping upon the hills.
9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart. / Now he stands behind our wall; / He is looking through the windows, / He is glancing through the lattice.
10 My beloved responds and says to me, / Rise up, my love, / My beauty, and come away;
11 For now the winter is past; / The rain is over and gone.
12 Flowers appear on the earth; / The time of singing has come, / And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
13 The fig tree has ripened its figs, / And the vines are in blossom — they give forth their fragrance. / Rise up, my love, / My beauty, and come away.
14 My dove, in the clefts of the rock, / In the covert of the precipice, / Let me see your countenance, / Let me hear your voice; / For your voice is sweet, / And your countenance is lovely.
15 Catch the foxes for us, / The little foxes, / That ruin the vineyards / While our vineyards are in blossom.
16 My beloved is mine, and I am his; / He pastures his flock among the lilies.
17 Until the day dawns and the shadows flee away, / Turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young hart / On the mountains of Bether.
Song 3
1 On my bed night after night / I sought him whom my soul loves; / I sought him, but found him not.
2 I will rise now and go about in the city; / In the streets and in the squares / I will seek him whom my soul loves. / I sought him, but found him not.
3 The watchmen who go about in the city found me — / Have you seen him whom my soul loves?
4 Scarcely had I passed them / When I found him whom my soul loves; / I held him and would not let go / Until I had brought him into my mother’s house / And into the chamber of her who conceived me.
5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, / By the gazelles or by the hinds of the fields, / Not to rouse up or awaken my love / Until she pleases.
6 Who is she who comes up from the wilderness / Like pillars of smoke, / Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, / With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
7 There is Solomon’s bed; / Sixty mighty men surround it, / Of the mighty men of Israel.
8 All of them wield the sword and are expert in war; / Each man has his sword at his thigh / Because of the night alarms.
9 King Solomon made himself a palanquin / Of the wood of Lebanon.
10 Its posts he made of silver; / Its bottom, of gold; / Its seat, of purple; / Its midst was inlaid with love / From the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go forth, O daughters of Zion, / And look at King Solomon with the crown / With which his mother crowned him / On the day of his espousals, / Yes, on the day of the gladness of his heart.
Song 4
1 Oh, you are beautiful, my love! / Oh, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil; / Your hair is like a flock of goats / That repose on Mount Gilead.
2 Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes / That have come up from the washing, / All of which have borne twins, / And none of them is bereaved of her young.
3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, / And your mouth is lovely; / Your cheeks are like a piece of pomegranate / Behind your veil.
4 Your neck is like the tower of David, / Built for an armory: / A thousand bucklers hang on it, / All the shields of the mighty men.
5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, / Twins of a gazelle, / That feed among the lilies.
6 Until the day dawns and the shadows flee away, / I, for my part, will go to the mountain of myrrh / And to the hill of frankincense.
7 You are altogether beautiful, my love, / And there is no blemish in you.
8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; / With me from Lebanon come. / Look from the top of Amana, / From the top of Senir and Hermon, / From the lions’ dens, / From the leopards’ mountains.
9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; / You have ravished my heart with one glance of your eyes, / With one strand of your necklace.
10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! / How much better is your love than wine, / And the fragrance of your ointments / Than all spices!
11 Your lips drip fresh honey, my bride; / Honey and milk are under your tongue; / And the fragrance of your garments / Is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride, / A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates / With choicest fruit; / Henna with spikenard,
14 Spikenard and saffron; / Calamus and cinnamon, / With all the trees of frankincense; / Myrrh and aloes, / With all the chief spices.
15 A fountain in gardens, / A well of living water, / And streams from Lebanon.
New Testament
Gal 5:16~6:18
Gal 5
16 But I say, Walk by the Spirit and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these oppose each other that you would not do the things that you desire.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are such things as fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, divisions, sects,
21 Envyings, bouts of drunkenness, carousings, and things like these, of which I tell you beforehand, even as I have said before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 Meekness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
24 But they who are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and its lusts.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
Gal 6
1 Brothers, even if a man is overtaken in some offense, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, looking to yourself lest you also be tempted.
2 Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ completely.
3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4 But let each man prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in regard to himself alone and not in regard to another.
5 For each one shall bear his own load.
6 But let him who is instructed in the word share in all good things with him who instructs.
7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
8 For he who sows unto his own flesh will reap corruption of the flesh, but he who sows unto the Spirit will of the Spirit reap eternal life.
9 And let us not lose heart in doing what is good, for in the proper season we will reap if we do not faint.
10 So then, as we have the opportunity, let us do what is good toward all, but especially toward those of the household of the faith.
11 See with what large letters I have written to you with my own hand.
12 As many as desire to make a good show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, but only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
13 For neither do they that become circumcised keep the law themselves, but they desire you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.
15 For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation is what matters.
16 And as many as walk by this rule, peace be upon them and mercy, even upon the Israel of God.
17 Henceforth let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the brands of Jesus.
18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.