8Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you- if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love. 9(Friends)How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you so charge us?

1(Friends)Where has your beloved gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your beloved turn, that we may look for him with you? 2(She)My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies. 3I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies. 4(He)You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners. 5Turn your eyes from me; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead. 6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is missing. 7Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate. 8Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number; 9but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her. 10(Friends)Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession? 11(He)I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom. 12Before I realized it, my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people. Or [among the chariots of Amminadab]; or [among the chariots of the people of the prince] 13(Friends)Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, that we may gaze on you!(He)Why would you gaze on the Shulammite as on the dance of Mahanaim?

7Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

1I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all Many early manuscripts [What my Father has given me is greater than all]; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

17Jesus asked, Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? 18Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? 19Then he said to him, Rise and go; your faith has made you well.

16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.