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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How beautiful you are, my darling!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Oh, how beautiful!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Your eyes behind your veil are doves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">Your hair is like a flock of goats</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"><span class="content">descending from the hills of Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.4.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">coming up from the washing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">Each has its twin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"><span class="content">not one of them is alone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.4.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">your mouth is lovely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">Your temples behind your veil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"><span class="content">are like the halves of a pomegranate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.4.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your neck is like the tower of David,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">built with courses of stone</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">on it hang a thousand shields,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"><span class="content">all of them shields of warriors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.4.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your breasts are like two fawns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="content">like twin fawns of a gazelle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"><span class="content">that browse among the lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.4.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Until the day breaks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">and the shadows flee,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">I will go to the mountain of myrrh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"><span class="content">and to the hill of incense.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.4.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You are altogether beautiful, my darling;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"><span class="content">there is no flaw in you.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.4.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">come with me from Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">Descend from the crest of Amana,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">from the lions&#8217; dens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"><span class="content">and the mountain haunts of leopards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.4.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">you have stolen my heart</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">with one glance of your eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"><span class="content">with one jewel of your necklace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.4.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">How much more pleasing is your love than wine,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">and the fragrance of your perfume</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"><span class="content">more than any spice!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.4.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">milk and honey are under your tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">The fragrance of your garments</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"><span class="content">is like the fragrance of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.4.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.4.12"><span class="content">you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.4.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="content">with choice fruits,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"><span class="content">with henna and nard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.4.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">nard and saffron,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">calamus and cinnamon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">with every kind of incense tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">with myrrh and aloes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"><span class="content">and all the finest spices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.4.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You are</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">I am </span><span class="ft">(spoken by </span><span class="fqa">She</span><span class="ft">)</span></span></span><span class="content"> a garden fountain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="content">a well of flowing water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"><span class="content">streaming down from Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.4.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Awake, north wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">and come, south wind!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">Blow on my garden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">that its fragrance may spread everywhere.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">Let my beloved come into his garden</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.4.16"><span class="content">and taste its choice fruits.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">I have drunk my wine and my milk.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">Eat, friends, and drink;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">drink your fill of love.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I slept but my heart was awake.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">Listen! My beloved is knocking:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Open to me, my sister, my darling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">my dove, my flawless one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">My head is drenched with dew,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">my hair with the dampness of the night.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I have taken off my robe&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">must I put it on again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">I have washed my feet&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">must I soil them again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.5.4"><span class="content">my heart began to pound for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.5.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I arose to open for my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">and my hands dripped with myrrh,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">my fingers with flowing myrrh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">on the handles of the bolt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I opened for my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">but my beloved had left; he was gone.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">My heart sank at his departure.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">heart had gone out to him when he spoke</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">I looked for him but did not find him.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">I called him but he did not answer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The watchmen found me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">as they made their rounds in the city.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">They beat me, they bruised me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">they took away my cloak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">those watchmen of the walls!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">if you find my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">what will you tell him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">Tell him I am faint with love.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How is your beloved better than others,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">most beautiful of women?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">How is your beloved better than others,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">that you so charge us?</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My beloved is radiant and ruddy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.5.10"><span class="content">outstanding among ten thousand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.5.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His head is purest gold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="content">his hair is wavy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="content">and black as a raven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His eyes are like doves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="content">by the water streams,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="content">washed in milk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="content">mounted like jewels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">His cheeks are like beds of spice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="content">yielding perfume.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="content">His lips are like lilies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="content">dripping with myrrh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His arms are rods of gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="content">set with topaz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="content">His body is like polished ivory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="content">decorated with lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">His legs are pillars of marble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="content">set on bases of pure gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="content">His appearance is like Lebanon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="content">choice as its cedars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">His mouth is sweetness itself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="content">he is altogether lovely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="content">This is my beloved, this is my friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="content">daughters of Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Where has your beloved gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"><span class="content">most beautiful of women?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"><span class="content">Which way did your beloved turn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"><span class="content">that we may look for him with you?</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.6.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My beloved has gone down to his garden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"><span class="content">to the beds of spices,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"><span class="content">to browse in the gardens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"><span class="content">and to gather lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.6.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I am my beloved&#8217;s and my beloved is mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.6.3"><span class="content">he browses among the lilies.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.6.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.6.4"><span class="content">as lovely as Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.6.4"><span class="content">as majestic as troops with banners.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.6.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Turn your eyes from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"><span class="content">they overwhelm me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"><span class="content">Your hair is like a flock of goats</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"><span class="content">descending from Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.6.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your teeth are like a flock of sheep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"><span class="content">coming up from the washing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"><span class="content">Each has its twin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"><span class="content">not one of them is missing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.6.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your temples behind your veil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.6.7"><span class="content">are like the halves of a pomegranate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.6.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Sixty queens there may be,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.6.8"><span class="content">and eighty concubines,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.6.8"><span class="content">and virgins beyond number;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.6.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">but my dove, my perfect one, is unique,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="content">the only daughter of her mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="content">the favorite of the one who bore her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="content">The young women saw her and called her blessed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"><span class="content">the queens and concubines praised her.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.6.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who is this that appears like the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.6.10"><span class="content">fair as the moon, bright as the sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.6.10"><span class="content">majestic as the stars in procession?</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.6.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I went down to the grove of nut trees</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"><span class="content">to look at the new growth in the valley,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"><span class="content">to see if the vines had budded</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"><span class="content">or the pomegranates were in bloom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.6.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Before I realized it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.6.12"><span class="content">my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">among the chariots of Amminadab</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">among the chariots of the people of the prince</span></span></span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.6.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Come back, come back, O Shulammite;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.6.13"><span class="content">come back, come back, that we may gaze on you!</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.6.13"><span class="content">Why would you gaze on the Shulammite</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.6.13"><span class="content">as on the dance of Mahanaim?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (6:13) is numbered 7:1.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.6.13"></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">On Denying the Incarnation</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1JN.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1JN.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.4.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1JN.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1JN.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> of truth and the spirit of falsehood.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Love and Ours</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.4.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1JN.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1JN.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1JN.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1JN.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1JN.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1JN.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1JN.4.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1JN.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1JN.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1JN.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1JN.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1JN.4.16"><span class="content">God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1JN.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1JN.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1JN.4.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1JN.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We love because he first loved us. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1JN.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1JN.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Faith in the Incarnate Son of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1JN.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1JN.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1JN.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1JN.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1JN.5.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is the one who came by water and blood&#8212;Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1JN.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For there are three that testify: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1JN.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:7,8 </span><span class="ft">Late manuscripts of the Vulgate </span><span class="fqa">testify in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. </span><span class="fv">8 </span><span class="fqa">And there are three that testify on earth: the </span><span class="ft">(not found in any Greek manuscript before the fourteenth century)</span></span></span><span class="content"> Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1JN.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We accept human testimony, but God&#8217;s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1JN.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1JN.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1JN.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Concluding Affirmations</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1JN.5.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1JN.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1JN.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1JN.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And if we know that he hears us&#8212;whatever we ask&#8212;we know that we have what we asked of him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1JN.5.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1JN.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1JN.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1JN.5.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1JN.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1JN.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1JN.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1JN.5.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1JN.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2JN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The elder,</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2JN.1.1"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2JN.1.1"><span class="content">To the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth&#8212;and not I only, but also all who know the truth&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2JN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2JN.1.2"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2JN.1.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father&#8217;s Son, will be with us in truth and love.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2JN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2JN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2JN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2JN.1.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2JN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2JN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Watch out that you do not lose what we</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:8 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">you</span></span></span><span class="content"> have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2JN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2JN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2JN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2JN.1.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2JN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The children of your sister, who is chosen by God, send their greetings.</span></span></div>
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