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CHRISTIAN AND HEBREW SCRIPTURE READINGS

1 John 4:7-12

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God's love was revealed among us in this way: God

sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also
ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is

perfected in us.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and 13
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is
not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever

the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every
circumstance. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

Songs of Solomon 2:10-13

My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the

turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth
fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

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