True Love Waits

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

for by grace you have 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?

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown 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 to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

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

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

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

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.” — read the full passage →

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

If you love me, 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 don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

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

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

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 don’t have love, I am nothing.

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

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, 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 on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”