Song of Solomon 1:3
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The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
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A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.
Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaron’s beard over the collar of his robes.
I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.
to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.