Love Verses in the Bible - Song of Solomon

Love is the foremost trait in all of Scripture. Because of Love, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the penalty of our sin through His sacrifice and victory at the cross.  Jesus Christ identified the most important commandments in all of Scripture to be: Love God, Love your neighbor.  Just before His crucifixion, Jesus said: "A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another."  Without God, this is simply impossible because "God is Love."

As C.S. Lewis wrote, "In God, there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."

Love

• Song of Solomon 1:2
• "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth -- for your love is more delightful than wine."
• Song of Solomon 1:3
• "Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out.  No wonder the maidens love you!"
• Song of Solomon 1:4
• "Take me away with you -- let us hurry!  Let the king bring me into his chambers.  We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine.  How right they are to adore you!"
• Song of Solomon 1:7
• "Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday.  Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?"
• Song of Solomon 2:4
• "He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love."
• Song of Solomon 2:5
• "Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faith with love."
• Song of Solomon 2:7
• "Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires."
• Song of Solomon 3:5
• "Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires."
• Song of Solomon 4:10
• "How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride!  How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice!"
• Song of Solomon 5:8
• "O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you -- if you find my lover, what will you tell him?  Tell him I am faith with love."
• Song of Solomon 7:6
• "How beautiful you are and how pleasing, O love, with your delights! "
• Song of Solomon 7:12
• "Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom -- there I will give you my love."
• Song of Solomon 8:4
• "Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires."
• Song of Solomon 8:6
• "Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave.  It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame."
• Song of Solomon 8:7
• "Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away.  If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned."

Lovely

• Song of Solomon 1:5
• "Dark am I, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon."
• Song of Solomon 2:14
• "My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely."
• Song of Solomon 4:3
• "Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely.  Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate."
• Song of Solomon 5:16
• "His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely.  This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem."
• Song of Solomon 6:4
• "You are beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, majestic as troops with banners."

Lover

• Song of Solomon 1:13
• "My lover is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts."
• Song of Solomon 1:14
• "My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi"
• Song of Solomon 1:16
• "How handsome you are, my lover!  Oh, how charming!  And our bed is verdant."
• Song of Solomon 2:3
• "Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my lover among the young men.  I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste."
• Song of Solomon 2:8
• "Listen!  My lover!  Look!  Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills."
• Song of Solomon 2:9
• "My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag.  Look!  There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice."
• Song of Solomon 2:10
• "My lover spoke and said to me, 'Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.'"
• Song of Solomon 2:16
• "My lover is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies."
• Song of Solomon 2:17
• "Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills."
• Song of Solomon 4:16
• "Awake, north wind, and come, south wind!  Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread abroad.  Let my lover come into his garden and taste its choice fruits."
• Song of Solomon 5:2
• "I slept but my heart was awake.  Listen!  My lover is knocking: 'Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one.  My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.'"
• Song of Solomon 5:4
• "My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him."
• Song of Solomon 5:5
• "I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock."
• Song of Solomon 5:6
• "I opened for my lover, by my lover had left; he was gone.  My heart sank at his departure.  I looked for him but did not find him.  I called to him but he did not answer."
• Song of Solomon 5:8
• "O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you -- If you find my lover, what will you tell him?  Tell him I am faint with love."
• Song of Solomon 5:10
• "My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand,"
• Song of Solomon 5:16
• "His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovey.  This is my lover, this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem"
• Song of Solomon 6:1
• "Where has your lover gone, most beautiful of women?  Which way did your lover turn, that we may look for him with you?"
• Song of Solomon 6:2
• "My lover has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies."
• Song of Solomon 6:3
• "I am my lover's and my lover is mine; he browses among the lilies."
• Song of Solomon 7:9
• "and your mouth like the best wine.  May the wine go straight to my lover, flowing gently over lips and teeth."
• Song of Solomon 7:10
• "I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me."
• Song of Solomon 7:11
• "Come, my lover, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages."
• Song of Solomon 7:13
• "The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my lover."
• Song of Solomon 8:5
• "Who is this coming up from the desert leaning on her lover?"
• Song of Solomon 8:14
• "Come away, y lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountain."

Lover's

• Song of Solomon 6:3
• "I am my lover's and my lover is mine; he browses among the lilies."

Lovers

• Song of Solomon 5:1
• "I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.  I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk."

Loves

• Song of Solomon 3:1
• "All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him."
• Song of Solomon 3:2
• "I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves.  So I looked for him but did not find him."
• Song of Solomon 3:3
• "The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city.  'Have you seen the one my heart loves?'"
• Song of Solomon 3:4
• "Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves.  I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me."