Song of Songs 8:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ »If only you were like my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I find you outside I would kiss you. I would not be despised.

¹² Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed (happy) are all who take refuge (put trust) in him.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter, pay attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house. ¹¹ Then the King will desire your beauty. Bow down to him because he is your Lord.

¹⁷ The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. O God, you do not despise a broken and sorrowful (contrite) heart.

¹⁶ For Jehovah has built up Zion. He has appeared in His glory. ¹⁷ He has respected the prayer of the destitute and has not despised their prayer.

² (The Shulamite) »Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Your love is better than wine.

¹⁴ Therefore Jehovah will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel (God with us).

⁶ For unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. He will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.

¹¹ »You will nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breasts. You will nurse and be satisfied at her full breasts.« ¹² This is what Jehovah says: »I will offer you peace like a river and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream. You will nurse and be carried in Jerusalem's arms and cuddled on her knees.

¹⁴ »The sons of those who oppress you will bow in front of you. All who loathe you will bow at your feet. They will call you the city of Jehovah, Zion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

⁷ »I will shake all the nations and make them afraid. The treasures of all the nations will be brought here. I will fill this house with glory.

⁹ »Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous having salvation. He is humble, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the son of a she ass.

¹ »Behold, I send my messenger! He will prepare the way before me. Seek Jehovah! He will suddenly come to his Temple along with the messenger of the covenant. He is one you desire, behold, he comes,« said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁶ »Happy and blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. ¹⁷ »Truly, I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things that you see, and could not see them. They also desired to hear the things that you hear, and could not hear them.

⁴² A poor widow came along and dropped in two mites. ⁴³ He told his disciples: »Truly I tell you this poor widow gave more then all the others who gave to the collection box. ⁴⁴ »They all gave out of their surplus. She gave out of her poverty. She gave all that she owned, all her living.«

⁶ Jesus said: »Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She did a good thing to me. ⁷ »You always have the poor with you and you can do them good. You do not always have me. ⁸ »She did what she could! She anointed my body beforehand for burying. ⁹ »Truly I tell you everywhere the good news is preached through out the whole world, that which this woman has done will be spoken of for a memorial of her.«

²⁶ Holy Spirit revealed to him that he would not die before he saw the Christ of God. ²⁷ Under the power of the spirit he came to the temple. The parents brought in the child Jesus, that they obey the custom of the law. ²⁸ He received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said: ²⁹ »Let your servant depart according to your word in peace. ³⁰ »My eyes have seen your salvation. ³¹ »That which you prepared before the peoples. ³² »It is a light of revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.«

³⁸ Even up to that time she gave thanks to God and spoke to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

⁴⁵ »You did not kiss me. Since the time I came in she has not ceased kissing my feet. ⁴⁶ »You did not anoint my head with oil. She anointed my feet with ointment. ⁴⁷ »She loved much! She has many sins and they are forgiven. When little is forgiven, little love is shown.« ⁴⁸ He said to her: »Your sins are forgiven!«

²⁶ »If any man is ashamed of my teachings, and of me the Son of man will be ashamed of that person. This will happen when he comes in his own glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

¹⁶ »He that hears you hears me; and he that rejects you rejects me and he that rejects me rejects him that sent me.«

²³ Turning to the disciples, he said privately: »Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see. ²⁴ »I tell you many prophets and kings desired to see the things you see and did not see them. To hear the things you hear and did not hear them.«

⁸ »I tell you, every one who confesses me before men; the Son of man will also confess him before the angels of God.

⁹ He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:

¹⁴ The Word [Jesus] became flesh (a human being) and lived with us. We saw the glory of the only begotten son from the Father. He was full of loving-kindness and truth.

¹³ »No one has ever ascended into heaven but the Son of man who descended from heaven.

⁴⁶ »No man has ever spoken the way he speaks,« they replied. ⁴⁷ The Pharisees therefore answered them: »Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸ »Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ »This crowd does not know the law. It is contemptible« ⁵⁰ Nicodemus spoke to them. (He is the Pharisee who earlier went to Jesus.) ⁵¹ »Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to find out what he has done?« ⁵² They replied: »Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.«

⁴² Jesus said: »If God were your Father you would love me. I came from God! I have not come from myself. He sent me!

²⁵ He answered: »I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I know, I was blind and now I see.« ²⁶ They asked: »What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? ²⁷ He answered them: »I told you before and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Would you also become his disciples?« ²⁸ Then they spoke abusively to him: »You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses.« ²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses. As for this man we do not know where he is from. ³⁰ The man answered: »This certainly is a marvel that you do not know where he is from and yet he opened my eyes.« ³¹ »We know that God does not listen to sinners. If any man respects God and does his will, God listens to him. ³² »Since the world began no one ever heard of a man opening the eyes of someone born blind. ³³ »If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. ³⁴ They answered: »You were born in sin and you teach us?« Then they threw him out. ³⁵ Jesus heard that they threw him out. He found him and said: »Do you believe in the Son of God?« ³⁶ He answered: »Who is he Lord that I may believe in him?« ³⁷ Jesus replied: »You both see and hear him for he speaks with you.« ³⁸ »Lord I believe,« he said. And he bowed down to him.

³ Jesus knew that the Father had given him power over all things. He also knew it came from God and he returns it to God.

²⁸ »I came out from the Father and came into the world. I leave the world and go to the Father.«

²⁸ God also chose the base things of the world, and things which are despised, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are.

²⁶ The Jerusalem above is free. She is our mother.

¹⁴ Never should I boast except in the stake (symbolic: self-denial and atonement) of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is through this stake that the world has been impaled to me, and I to the world.

³ We are those with true circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God. We glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

⁷ Things that offered gain to me I count a loss for Christ. ⁸ I count all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. I suffered the loss of all things. Yet I count them as refuse (garbage) (dung) that I may gain Christ.

⁹ We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honor for suffering death. By the grace of God he tasted death for every man. ¹⁰ It was appropriate that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, should bring many sons to glory, to make the Chief Agent of their salvation perfect through suffering. ¹¹ Both he who sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all from one. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them »brothers«. ¹² He says: »I will declare your name to my brothers; in the middle of the congregation I will sing praises to you.« ¹³ And again: »I will put my trust in him.« And again: »Behold, the children that Jehovah has given me.« (Isaiah 8:18) ¹⁴ Since the »children« are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.

¹⁶ The secret of godliness is great and it is without controversy. ‘He (Jesus Christ) was manifested (revealed) in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, and seen by angels. He preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, and received up in glory.’

²⁶ Otherwise he would have to suffer often from the founding of the world. He has presented himself once at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment: ²⁸ So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. He will appear the second time without sin to those who look to him for their salvation.