Hugging In Public

Let brotherly love continue.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. The assemblies of Christ greet you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.

Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

Let all that you do be done in love.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

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

and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

(after that Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem),

Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. — read the full passage →

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.

When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.