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• Song of Songs 2:16

  A verse in the Song of Songs in which the woman declares that she and her beloved belong to each other. It is frequently cited and has been read both as a song of marital love and as an expression of the relationship between God and his people or between Christ and the church.

• Stachys

  Stachys was a Christian in Rome whom the apostle Paul called "Stachys my beloved" in the greetings of Romans 16. His name appears only once in the Bible.

• Amplias

  Amplias was a believer in the church at Rome whom the apostle Paul called "my beloved in the Lord" in the closing greetings of Romans 16. He is mentioned in Scripture only in this single verse.

• 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.

• Urbanus

  Urbanus was a believer in the church at Rome whose name appears in Romans 16:9 in the New Testament. Paul included him in his greetings, calling him "our fellow worker in Christ."

• Song of Songs 5:2

  A scene in the Song of Songs in which the beloved, drenched with the night dew, asks the sleeping woman to open the door to him. It is read as a poem celebrating love between a man and a woman, and also as a picture of Christ knocking at the door of the church and of the believer's heart, a reading frequently cited in preaching.

• Psalm 23:1–6

  A psalm of David that begins, "The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want." Portraying God as a shepherd and as the host of a banquet, it confesses His lifelong care and is among the most widely known and beloved psalms in the Bible.

• Gertrude Hobbs Chambers

  Gertrude Hobbs Chambers (1883–1966) was an English Christian and the wife of Oswald Chambers. She took down her husband's lectures in shorthand and, after his death, compiled them into works including the devotional My Utmost for His Highest.

• Demas

  Demas is a New Testament figure, a coworker of the apostle Paul named in Colossians and Philemon, who is recorded in 2 Timothy as having forsaken Paul, "having loved this present world," and departed for Thessalonica.

• Philippians 4:19

  "But my God shall supply all your need" is a promise made by the apostle Paul. Cherished as a verse of comfort about God as provider, it has also been criticized for being used, contrary to its context, to speak of offerings and material blessing.

• Adonai

  Adonai is a Hebrew word meaning "my Lord," used in the Old Testament as a title for God. In Judaism, readers did not pronounce the divine name (YHWH) directly but substituted this word in its place.

• Matthew 18:20

  "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" is a promise of Jesus. It is widely used to offer comfort that he is present even in small gatherings, although some interpreters note that its original context concerns the church's judgment and prayer.

• Psalm 119:105

  A verse of confession: "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." It expresses the conviction that God's word illuminates the course of one's life. It is a key text on the authority of Scripture and on meditation on the word, and it is widely used in worship songs and as a motto.

• Rabbi

  Rabbi is a Hebrew and Aramaic title of respect meaning "my teacher." In the New Testament Gospels, disciples and others use it to address Jesus and John the Baptist.

• Rabboni

  Rabboni is an Aramaic form of address meaning "my teacher." It is used twice in the New Testament to address Jesus and is best known as the word Mary Magdalene spoke when she recognized the risen Jesus.

• Joel 2:28-29

  God's promise that afterward he will pour out his Spirit upon all flesh, so that sons and daughters will prophesy, old men will dream dreams, and young men will see visions, and that he will pour out his Spirit even upon servants and handmaids. Quoted by Peter in his Pentecost sermon, the passage is a central text in interdenominational debates over the work of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and women's ministry.

• Matthew 26:26–28

  At the Last Supper, Jesus broke bread and said, "Take, eat; this is my body," and then gave the cup, saying, "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." These are the words of institution of the Lord's Supper, and this is the passage over which the church has been most deeply divided in its understanding of Communion.

• Joshua 24:15

  Joshua 24:15 records the declaration Joshua made near the end of his life, when he called on Israel to choose that day whom they would serve and announced, "As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." It is the verse most widely used as a motto for household faith, and it is also cited in discussions of human choice and divine sovereignty.

• Job 19:25

  Job 19:25 is Job's confession in the midst of his suffering: "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth." The church has long read this verse as pointing to Christ and the hope of the resurrection, while scholars differ over the identity of the redeemer and what Job expected.

• John 21:15–17

  The passage in which the risen Jesus, on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias, asks Simon Peter three times, "Lovest thou me?" and entrusts him with the charge, "Feed my sheep." It is frequently cited as a text about Peter's restoration and the pastoral calling.