Psa 63:3-5, Song 1:4, 7:9, Isa 25:6, 55:1, Zec 9:15-17, Luk 11:13 | ESV | STEP | Because your steadfast love is better than life , my lips will praise you.

j[See ver. 2 above]

k[ch. 5:16]

n ch. 2:2, 3; 11:9; 24:23

o[Ps. 63:5]

p ch. 44:3; John 7:37; [Matt. 5:6]

q Prov. 9:5

r ch. 12:8; [ch. 10:5]

v[Lev. 4:18, 25]

x Isa. 62:3; [Mal. 3:17]

y[Isa. 62:3, 4]

z[Isa. 62:8, 9; Jer. 31:12]

aa Gen. 6:5; 8:21; Matt. 12:34

ab[John 4:10; Acts 2:38]

Psalms 63:3-5

3 Because your ^asteadfast love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
4 So I will bless you ^bas long as I live;
in your ^cname I will ^dlift up my hands.
5 My soul will be ^esatisfied as with fat and rich food,
and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,

Song of Solomon 1:4

4 ^fDraw me after you; ^glet us run.
^hThe king has brought me into his chambers.

Others

We will ⁱexult and rejoice in you;
we will extol ^jyour love more than wine;
rightly do they love you.

Song of Solomon 7:9

9 and your ^kmouth ^{▼▼Hebrew palate} like the best wine.

She

It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth. ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew causing the lips of sleepers to speak}

Isaiah 25:6

6 ⁿOn this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
^oof rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

Isaiah 55:1

The Compassion of the Lord

1 ^p“Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
^qcome, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.

Zechariah 9:15-17

15 The Lord of hosts ^rwill protect them,
and ^sthey shall devour, ^tand tread down the sling stones,
and ^uthey shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
and be full like a bowl,
drenched ^vlike the corners of the altar.
16 On that day the Lord their God will save them,
as ^wthe flock of his people;
for ^xlike the jewels of a crown
they shall shine on his land.
17 ^yFor how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!
^zGrain shall make the young men flourish,
and new wine the young women.

Luke 11:13

13 If you then, ^aawho are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father ^abgive the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”