¹⁰ How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all manner of spices!

² Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For your love is better than wine.

³ Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, Therefore the virgins love you.

⁴ Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his chambers. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.

¹² While the king sat at his table, My perfume spread its fragrance.

⁶ Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all spices of the merchant?

⁵ I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, My fingers with liquid myrrh, On the handles of the lock.

⁶ How beautiful and how pleasant are you, Love, for delights!

²¹ Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

²² who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

¹⁸ But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

⁸ Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.