TRUE LOVE IS PATIENT
1 Corinthians 13:4–5 (ESV) – Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
Song of Solomon 8:1–4 (ESV) – Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me. I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother—she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me! I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
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TRUE LOVE IS POWERFUL
Song of Solomon 8:6–7 (ESV) – Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.
Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (ESV) – “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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TRUE LOVE IS PURE
Song of Solomon 8:8–10 (ESV) – We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for? If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 (ESV) – For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
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TRUE LOVE IS PASSIONATE
Song of Solomon 1:2 (ESV) – Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;
Song of Solomon 8:14 (ESV) – Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
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TRUE LOVE CAME FOR US
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