kissing

²fragranced with the finest perfumes. Bride to Groom: Your name is oil that has been poured out; therefore, the maidens have loved you.

¹¹Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.

¹⁶Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

⁴May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

²⁶He shall kiss the lips, who responds with upright words.

⁶The wounds of a loved one are better than the deceitful kisses of a hateful one.

¹⁴Greet one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

¹⁰When Jacob had seen her, and he realized that she was his maternal first cousin, and that these were the sheep of his uncle Laban, he removed the stone which closed the well. ¹¹And having watered the flock, he kissed her. And lifting up his voice, he wept. ¹²And he revealed to her that he was a brother of her father, and the son of Rebekah. And so, hurrying, she announced it to her father.

⁴⁵You gave no kiss to me. But she, from the time that she entered, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

¹³Though his wrath can flare up in a short time, blessed are all those who trust in him.

³⁶Then certain Pharisees petitioned him, so that they might eat with him. And he went into the house of the Pharisee, and he reclined at table. ³⁷And behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner, found out that he was reclining at table in the house of the Pharisee, so she brought an alabaster container of ointment. ³⁸And standing behind him, beside his feet, she began to wash his feet with tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, and she kissed his feet, and she anointed them with ointment. ³⁹Then the Pharisee, who had invited him, upon seeing this, spoke within himself, saying, “This man, if he were a prophet, would certainly know who and what kind of woman is this, who is touching him: that she is a sinner.” ⁴⁰And in response, Jesus said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” So he said, “Speak, Teacher.” ⁴¹“A certain creditor had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

¹⁴In response, they lifted up their voice and began to weep again. Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, and then turned back. Ruth clung to her mother-in-law.

¹²Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you.

⁵Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

⁴¹And when the boy had gone away, David rose up from his place, which turned toward the south, and falling prone on the ground, he reverenced three times. And kissing one another, they wept together, but David more so.

⁵Then too, when a man would draw near to him, so that he might greet him, he would extend his hand, and taking hold of him, he would kiss him.

³For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication, ⁴that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

²⁶Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.