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- For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
- Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
- Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
- Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”
- Do everything in love.
- Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ …
- My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
- Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
- And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.