SoS 8:6-7
✝️ SP Summary: Song of Songs 8:6–7[edit | edit source]
“Place me like a seal… for love is as strong as death…”
📖 The Passage:[edit | edit source]
“Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy as fierce as Sheol.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the Lord.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house,
he would be utterly despised.”
— Song of Songs 8:6–7
🧩 SP Breakdown[edit | edit source]
🔐 “Set me as a seal upon your heart… and upon your arm”[edit | edit source]
- Seal = Ownership + Permanence
- Heart = Spirit (inner life)
- Arm = Flesh (outer works)
🧠 The bride is saying:
“Let Your death be impressed on my spirit and my works— that I may bear the mark of Your love.”
In SP: This is the bride being joined to Christ’s cross, both inwardly and outwardly.
She is not just believing in Him—she is becoming one with His death.
💔 “Love is as strong as death…”[edit | edit source]
This is the love of the cross.
- Death takes everything—it cannot be resisted.
- So does love, when it is Christ's love.
This is not romance—it is sacrificial love that lays down its life.
Love is not conquered by death—it walks into death and conquers through it.
🔥 “Its flashes are flashes of fire, the flame of YHWH”[edit | edit source]
This is holy fire—judgment and love combined.
The cross is that flame:
“The LORD rained fire from the LORD” — Gen. 19:24 “Our God is a consuming fire” — Heb. 12:29
This fire burns away the flesh to purify the bride.
Only a divine love could endure it.
🌊 “Many waters cannot quench love…”[edit | edit source]
Water = Word
Floods = Judgment
Even judgment cannot undo the love revealed in the cross.
No flood of failure, sin, or shame can drown what God has sealed.
The cross is the fire that water cannot quench.
💰 “If a man gave all for love… he would be utterly despised”[edit | edit source]
Love cannot be purchased.
It is not earned.
It is given by death.
To offer wealth is to miss the cross.
Only the one who dies with Him is united to this love.
🕊️ Final SP Summary[edit | edit source]
The bride is marked—inside and out—by the love of Christ, revealed at the cross.
His love is as strong as death
because it went into death
and brought her back out.
It is jealous—because it is exclusive.
It is fiery—because it judges the flesh.
It is unquenchable—because it is divine.
No ritual buys it.
No flood breaks it.
Only the bride who joins Him in death receives it.
