2(She The main male and female speakers (identified primarily on the basis of the gender of the relevant Hebrew forms) are indicated by the captions [He] and [She] respectively. The words of others are marked [Friends]. In some instances the divisions and their captions are debatable.)Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth- for your love is more delightful than wine.

5Dark am I, yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon. Or [Salma] 6Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother's sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I had to neglect. 7Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends? 8(Friends)If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the shepherds. 9(He)I liken you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh's chariot horses. 10Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. 11We will make you earrings of gold, studded with silver.

6All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

10I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing Or [having cleansed] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

15And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!

2Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.

19And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.

13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

15(He)How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves. 16(She)How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant.

21God made him who had no sin to be sin Or [be a sin offering] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

20Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.