Song of Songs: Dating, Marriage, and Sex Part 1: Dating

Song of Songs:

Part 1: Dating

Chapter 1-2

1. Looks can fool you, but character never will.

“Kiss me and kiss me again, for your love is sweeter than wine. How pleasing is your fragrance; your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils.”

Song of Songs 1:2-3

“Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?”

Song of Songs 1:7 (NIV)

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”

Philippians 4:8

2. Listen to the people around you.

“We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine.”

Song of Songs 1:4

“Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to others.”

Proverbs 12:15

3. You are safe and supported around them.

“I liken you, my darling, to a mare harnessed to one of the chariots of Pharaoh.”

Song of Songs 1:9(NIV)

“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?”

2 Corinthians 6:14

“Don’t you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? And don’t you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you?”

1 Corinthians 7:16

4. We refresh one another.

“My lover is like a sachet of myrrh lying between my breasts. He is like a bouquet of sweet henna blossoms from the vineyards of En-gedi.”

Song of Songs 1:13-14

“The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.”

Proverbs 11:25

5. Don’t start any fires until the fireplace is built.

“Ah, I hear my lover coming! He is leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. My lover is like a swift gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he is behind the wall, looking through the window, peering into the room. My lover said to me, “Rise up, my darling! Come away with me, my fair one!”

Song of Songs 2:8-10

“Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.”

Song of Songs 2:7(NIV)

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth”.

“Let the king bring me into his chambers”.

“For I am faint with love”.