Song of Songs 8:1

The bride wishes she could show her love openly, as freely as kissing a brother in public, without reproach. She longs for an unhindered, unashamed love.

Cross-references · 38

• Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• Ps 45:10–11Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
• Gal 4:26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
• Ps 102:16–17For the LORD will rebuild Zion; He has appeared in His glory.
• Isa 66:11–12so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.
• Mal 3:1“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Hag 2:7I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
• Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
• Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Isa 60:14The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
• Luke 2:38Coming forward at that moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the Child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
• John 7:46–52“Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.
• Phil 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
• Heb 9:26–28Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
• Matt 13:16–17But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
• Luke 18:9To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
• John 8:42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
• Luke 7:45–48You did not greet Me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing My feet since I arrived.
• 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.
• 1 Tim 3:16By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.
• John 13:3Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.
• Luke 2:26–32The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
• Ps 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
• John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• Phil 3:7–8But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
• John 9:25–38He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. There is one thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”
• Luke 9:26If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
• John 16:28I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
• Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
• Luke 12:8I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.
• Song 1:2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.
• Mark 14:6–9But Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.
• Gal 6:14But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• 1 Cor 1:28He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
• Heb 2:9–14But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
• Mark 12:42–44Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.
• Luke 10:23–24Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
• John 3:13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

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