True Love Waits

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

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

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace--for seasonable help.

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity? — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

The Song of Songs, that <FI>is<Fi> Solomon's. — read the full passage →

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter;

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.' — read the full passage →

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

`Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day--and the heat.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

If he delight to strive with Him--He doth not answer him one of a thousand.

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

He also that is remiss in his work, A brother he <FI>is<Fi> to a destroyer.

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

Desist, and know that I <FI>am<Fi> God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

And it cometh to pass on the third day, that Esther putteth on royalty, and standeth in the inner-court of the house of the king over-against the house of the king, and the king is sitting on his royal throne, in the royal-house, over-against the opening of the house, — read the full passage →

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'