True Love Waits

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing? — read the full passage →

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. — read the full passage →

For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers: — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh. — read the full passage →

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.

Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!

saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding:

We love, because he first loved us.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.