Song of Songs 1

Treated in 21 passages across the library.

  • 1:3 The scent of your perfumes is lovely; your name is perfume poured out; that is why the young women love you. 5
  • 1:2 May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! Your love is better than wine. 4
  • 1:4 Take me with you; let us run! The king has brought me into his rooms. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will celebrate your love more than wine. How right they are to love you! 4
  • 1:15 How beautiful you are, my darling! How beautiful you are! Your eyes are doves. 2
  • 1:1 The Song of Songs, the greatest of songs, which is Solomon's. 1
  • 1:6 Do not stare at me because I am so dark, because the sun has looked down on me. My mother's sons were angry with me and made me look after the vineyards; my own vineyard I have not looked after. 1
  • 1:8 If you do not know, most beautiful of women, go out and follow the flock's tracks, and graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents. 1
  • 1:10 Your cheeks are lovely between the ornaments, your neck with its strings of beads. 1
  • 1:12 While the king was on his couch, my nard gave off its scent. 1
  • 1:13 My beloved is a pouch of myrrh to me, resting all night between my breasts. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the way the saints hold communion with Christ as to personal grace cites Cant. i. 15

    …5, etc.; Cant. iii. 11, opened — The way of communion in conjugal relation, Hos. iii. 3; Cant. i. 15 — On the part of Christ — On the part of the saints. (2.) The next thing that comes under…

  2. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Joy cites Cant 1:1

    …within the heart. (3.) Spiritual joys are sweeter than others, they are better than wine. Cant 1:1. They are a Christian’s festival; they are the golden pot and the manna, they are so…

  3. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the fellowship which the saints have with Jesus Christ the Son of God cites Cant. i. 2

    …the assemblies of the saints, exhibited by the Spirit. This “love is better than wine,” Cant. i. 2; it is “not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”…

  4. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section I cites Cant. i. 2

    THE UNSATISFIED LIFE AND ITS REMEDY Cant. i. 2-ii. 7 There is no difficulty in recognizing the bride as the speaker in verses 2-7. The…

  5. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section VI cites Cant. i. 2

    …have seen is a poem describing the life of a believer on earth. Beginning in Section I. (Cant. i. 2-ii. 7) with the unsatisfied longings of an espoused one—longings which could only be met…

  6. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The First Stage cites Song 1:2

    …it. Take the first from my lips with a kiss, and the other as it shall be revealed. Song 1:2; John 20:20. Now I saw in my dream, that he spake many good words unto them, whereby they…

  7. Communion with God · John Owen

    Digression I: some excellencies of Christ proposed to consideration cites Cant. i. 3

    …of Noah), so do the saints smell a sweet savour from his grace laid up in Christ, Cant. i. 3. It is that which they rest in, which they delight in, which they are refreshed with. As…

  8. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the things wherein we have communion with the Holy Ghost cites Cant. i. 3

    …sweet “ointment poured forth,” that causeth souls to run after him with joy and delight, Cant. i. 3. We see it by daily experience, that very many have little taste and sweetness and relish…

  9. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    To the Reader cites Song 1:3

    …King.” So she took it, and opened it, but it smelt after the manner of the best perfume. Song 1:3. Also it was written in letters of gold. The contents of the letter were these, That the…

  10. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    IV. Gracious affections do arise from the mind's being enlightened, richly and spiritually to understand or apprehend divine things cites Cant. 1:3

    …the word, that ye may grow thereby; if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” Cant. 1:3, “Because of the savor of thy good ointments, thy name is as ointment poured forth…

  11. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Forgiveness cites Cant. i. 3

    …His name is as ointment poured forth, and comes with a peculiar sweetness to their ears. (Cant. i. 3.) They would tell you they cannot help feeling as they do. He is their Redeemer, their…

  12. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Cant 1: 4

    …within. Have we had the attraction of the Spirit? ‘Draw me, we will run after thee.’ Cant 1: 4. Has the Spirit, by its magnetic virtue, drawn our hearts to God? Can we say, ‘O thou…

  13. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    An exhortation to love God cites Cant. i. 4

    …does not love himself. (9). Love to God evidences sincerity. “The upright love thee” (Cant. i. 4). Many a child of God fears he is a hypocrite. Do you love God? When Peter was dejected…

  14. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    Prayer as Noble Action cites Cant. i. 4

    …makes us run to Him, as the Bride well knew when she said, “Draw me, we will run” (Cant. i. 4). Draw me, O my Divine Centre, by my inmost heart: my powers and my sensibilities will…

  15. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Cant. 1:4

    …water is, to see thy power and thy glory.” Verse 8, “My soul followeth hard after thee.” Cant. 1:4, “Draw me, we will run after thee.” Practice is the proper evidence of a gracious hope: 1…

  16. Till He Come · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh cites Song i. 6

    …though we ourselves feel that we are black, because the sun hath looked upon us? (Sol. Song i. 6.) The answer is ready, if we consider the analogy of faith. 1. In the matter of…

  17. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    Bible-Reading cites Cant. i. 8

    …of this love to the Word, and have this mark of walking "in the footsteps of the flock." (Cant. i. 8.) I charge you, I entreat you to give me an honest answer. What art thou doing with the…

  18. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Sanctification cites Cant 1:10

    …nature; it is our riches, therefore compared to rows of jewels, and chains of gold. Cant 1:10. It is our best certificate for heaven. What evidence have we else to show? Have we…

  19. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    Prayer and Sacrifice cites Cant. i. 12

    …“While the King sitteth at His table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof” (Cant. i. 12). The table is the heart. When God is there, and we are kept near to Him, in His…

  20. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ the Mediator of the Covenant cites Cant 1:13

    …Believers should put Christ in their bosom, as the spouse did. ‘Lie betwixt my breasts.’ Cant 1:13. What was said of Ignatius, that the name of Jesus was found written in his heart, should…

  21. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VIII. Truly gracious affections differ from those affections that are false and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ cites Cant. 1:15

    …a dovelike temper and disposition, therefore it is said of her that she has doves' eyes, Cant. 1:15: “Behold, thou art fair, my love, behold, thou art fair, thou hast doves' eyes.” And…