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• Bride of the Lamb

  The Bride of the Lamb is an expression in the Book of Revelation for the bride who is married to the Lamb, Jesus Christ. It is commonly read as a symbol of God's redeemed people, that is, the church.

• Bride of Christ

  The Bride of Christ is a biblical expression that likens the church to a bride joined to Jesus Christ in a marriage covenant. It expresses at once the love between Christ and the church, the church's purity, and the eschatological consummation of their relationship.

• Parable of the Ten Virgins

  The Parable of the Ten Virgins is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 25:1–13. It tells of ten virgins waiting for a bridegroom, of whom only the five who had prepared oil in advance entered the wedding feast, and it teaches believers to watch and be ready for the Second Coming.

• Revelation 22:17

  In this verse from the final chapter of the Bible, the Spirit and the bride (the church) say "Come," and the thirsty are invited to take the water of life freely. Interpreters debate whether it should be read as a prayer for the Second Coming or as a gospel invitation.

• Song of Songs 5

  Song of Songs 5 opens with the bridegroom's song upon entering his garden. It then tells how the bride, failing to receive her beloved when he comes to her at night, loses him, searches for him, and sings of his beauty to the daughters of Jerusalem.

• Song of Songs 4

  Song of Songs 4 is a love song in which the bridegroom praises the bride's eyes, hair, lips, neck, and other features by comparing them to scenes from nature and to spices, and likens her to a garden enclosed and a fountain sealed. In the final verse the bride invites her beloved into her garden.

• Song of Songs 7

  Song of Songs 7 is a love song in which the man praises the bride's beauty from her feet to her head, and the bride responds, "I am my beloved's," inviting him to go out with her to the fields and vineyards.

• Revelation 21:12–14

  A vision in which the names of the twelve tribes of Israel are written on the twelve gates of the New Jerusalem and the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb on its twelve foundations. The passage is frequently discussed for what it reveals about the relationship between the Old Testament people of God and the New Testament church.

• Psalm 45

  Psalm 45 is a "song of loves" of the sons of Korah. A royal wedding psalm, it praises the king's majesty, victories, and everlasting throne and celebrates the marriage in which the bride is brought into the royal palace. Verses 6–7 are quoted in Hebrews 1.

• Revelation 22:20

  In this verse the church answers Christ's promise, "Surely I come quickly," with the prayer "Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." It is the last prayer in the Bible, and because it carries the same meaning as the early church's Aramaic prayer *Maranatha*, it holds a cherished place in the hope of the Second Coming and in Christian worship traditions.

• Nard

  Nard is a precious aromatic oil made from the roots of a plant that grows in the Himalayan region. In the Bible it appears in the Song of Solomon and the Gospels, and it is best known as the "pure nard" (KJV "spikenard") that a woman poured on Jesus.

• Christian Wedding Service

  A Christian wedding service is a ceremony conducted as an act of worship in which a Christian man and woman make their marriage vows before God and receive a blessing upon their union. It is usually officiated by a pastor and held in a church or a wedding hall.

• Song of Songs

  The Song of Songs is a poetic book of the Old Testament, an eight-chapter poem celebrating the love and longing between a man and a woman. In Judaism and Christianity it has also long been read as a figure of the love between God and his people and between Christ and the Church.

• Marriage Supper of the Lamb

  The marriage supper of the Lamb is an expression found in Revelation 19. It refers to the feast celebrating the complete union of Christ, the Lamb, with his bride at the end of the age.

• Jeremiah 2

  Jeremiah 2 is a prophecy in which the LORD recalls Israel's first love in the wilderness and rebukes the people for forsaking him, the fountain of living waters, and relying instead on idols, Egypt, and Assyria.

• New Jerusalem

  The New Jerusalem is the holy city in the Book of Revelation that comes down out of heaven at the end of the age and in which God dwells with his people forever. It is portrayed as the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophets' hope for a restored Jerusalem.

• Revelation 21:1–4

  A vision of a new heaven and a new earth, the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven, and God dwelling with his people and wiping away every tear. As the final scene of the biblical story, it is among the passages most often read at funerals and services of comfort, and interpreters differ over whether the present world will pass away or be made new.

• Michal

  Michal was the younger daughter of Saul, the first king of Israel, and the first wife of David. She appears in 1 and 2 Samuel and is known for helping David escape from her father Saul and for despising David as he danced before the Ark of the Covenant.

• Doxology

  A doxology (Korean songyeong, 頌榮) is a short utterance or song of praise that gives glory to the triune God. The term refers both to the words of praise that close Scripture passages and prayers and to the brief hymns sung at the beginning or end of worship.

• Chelubai

  Chelubai is an Old Testament figure named in 1 Chronicles 2:9 as a son of Hezron of the tribe of Judah. He was a brother of Jerahmeel and Ram and is commonly identified with "Caleb the son of Hezron" in verses 18 and following of the same chapter.