This is part of a year long reading of the Bible chronologically in a harmonized format.

Song of Songs 4:1 - 8:14

- The lover praises the bride's beauty in vivid imagery and invites her to the garden of love; they celebrate their mutual delight and commitment.

- The bride seeks her beloved, affirms love's strength over death and jealousy, and the poem closes with invitations to intimacy and lasting affection.

Galatians 4:1-31

- Believers are no longer slaves under the law but sons adopted by God through Christ, receiving the Spirit and inheritance as heirs.

- Paul uses the allegory of Hagar and Sarah to urge freedom from the law's bondage, calling the Galatians to live as children of the free woman.