Song of Songs 1:2

The bride longs for the affection of her beloved, prizing his love above wine. It celebrates the joy and intimacy of devoted love.

Cross-references · 20

• Song 4:10How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.
• Song 1:4Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.
• Ps 36:7How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
• Isa 55:1–2“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
• Ps 63:3–5Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
• Luke 15:20So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
• Song 7:9and your mouth like the finest wine. May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and teeth.
• Matt 26:26While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”
• Ps 2:12Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
• Isa 25:6On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
• Song 8:1–2O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
• Song 2:4He has brought me to the house of wine, and his banner over me is love.
• Song 7:12Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom—there I will give you my love.
• Song 5:16His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
• Acts 21:7When we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for a day.
• Song 7:6How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
• 1 Pet 5:14Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.
• Gen 45:15Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.
• Gen 29:11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
• Gen 27:26–27Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”

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