Ezekiel 16:8

16:8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing ¹  that you had reached the age for love. ²  I spread my cloak ³  over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Psalms 139:21

139:21 O Lord, do I not hate those who hate you,

and despise those who oppose you? ⁴ 

Ephesians 3:19

3:19 and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to ⁵  all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 5:25

5:25 Husbands, love your ⁶  wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

Ephesians 5:28-29

5:28 In the same way ⁷  husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 5:29 For no one has ever hated his own body ⁸  but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

Titus 2:4

2:4 In this way ⁹  they will train ¹⁰  the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a participle.

² tn See similar use of this term in Ezek 23:17; Prov 7:16; Song of Songs 4:10; 7:13.

³ tn Heb “wing” or “skirt.” The gesture symbolized acquiring a woman in early Arabia (similarly, see Deut 22:30; Ruth 3:9).

⁴ tc Heb “who raise themselves up against you.” The form וּבִתְקוֹמְמֶיךָ (uvitqomÿmekha) should be emended to וּבְמִתְקוֹמְמֶיךָ (uvÿmitqomÿmekha), a Hitpolel participle (the prefixed mem [מ] of the participle is accidentally omitted in the MT, though a few medieval Hebrew mss have it).

⁵ tn Or “with.”

⁶ tn The Greek article has been translated as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

⁷ tn Grk “So also.”

⁸ tn Grk “flesh.”

⁹ tn Grk “that they may train” (continuing the sentence of 2:3).

¹⁰ tn This verb, σωφρονίζω (swfronizw), denotes teaching in the sense of bringing people to their senses, showing what sound thinking is.