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 beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
• Song 1:4Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.
• Ps 36:7How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
• Isa 55:1–2“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
• Ps 63:3–5Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
• Luke 15:20“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
• Song 7:9Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
• Matt 26:26As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”
• Ps 2:12Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
• Isa 25:6In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
• Song 8:1–2Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.
• Song 2:4He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.
• Song 7:12Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
• Song 5:16His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.
• Acts 21:7When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.
• Song 7:6How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
• 1 Pet 5:14Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
• Gen 45:15He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
• Gen 29:11Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
• Gen 27:26–27His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

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