11 Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;(A)
    honor(B) him, for he is your lord.(C)

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11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

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As a young man marries a young woman,
    so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom(A) rejoices over his bride,
    so will your God rejoice(B) over you.

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For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

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For he chose us(A) in him before the creation of the world(B) to be holy and blameless(C) in his sight. In love(D)

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According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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he[a] predestined(A) us for adoption to sonship[b](B) through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure(C) and will—

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:5 Or sight in love. He
  2. Ephesians 1:5 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a legal term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture.

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

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