Bible Verses about “true love waits”

“‹For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.›”

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”

“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”

“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”

“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”

“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”

“Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

“¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.”

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:”

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

“And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”

“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”

“And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”

“¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”

“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”

“Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

“¶ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;”

“¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”

“¶ Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

“‹For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.›”

“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.”

“The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

“¶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: 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 Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.”