Distance stretches love in ways that are hard to describe. These verses are for those being stretched.
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“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.”
Song of Solomon 8:7 (KJV)
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39 (KJV)“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.”
Philippians 1:3 (KJV)Song of Solomon 8:7 says love can't be drowned by floods — the image is of something actively trying to extinguish it and failing. Distance is one of those floods. Paul's letters in the New Testament are largely love letters across distance — written to people he couldn't be with, full of warmth and remembrance. Philippians 1:3 is just three words in the original and they're full: I thank my God on every memory of you. Distance doesn't have to silence love. It can redirect it into words.