Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.


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Genesis 34 12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
Exodus 21 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Leviticus 25 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
Numbers 30 14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
Deuteronomy 8 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Deuteronomy 10 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 15 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
Deuteronomy 17 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 21 15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
Deuteronomy 22 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
Deuteronomy 22 29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
1 Samuel 2 33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
2 Samuel 1 26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
1 Chronicles 16 32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.
1 Chronicles 29 3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house.
Job 8 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
Job 22 11 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job 28 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Job 31 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
Job 34 14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
Job 41 31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Psalms 6 6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalms 9 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psalms 17 14 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Psalms 30 5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalms 33 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Psalms 33 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
Psalms 37 4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Psalms 39 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalms 44 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Psalms 49 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms 50 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 58 8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Psalms 62 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Psalms 63 1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalms 64 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
Psalms 69 1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Psalms 69 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psalms 69 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Psalms 81 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Psalms 88 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 89 33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms 96 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 98 7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalms 102 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 112 3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
Psalms 119 113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Psalms 124 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Psalms 127 1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Psalms 128 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.