Bible Verses About True Love Waits
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for true love waits, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,594 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about True Love Waits
1 Corinthians 13:4-8484 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
2 Timothy 2:22223 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Song of Songs 8:4132 votes
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
James 4:7128 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hebrews 13:4126 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Timothy 4:12118 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20102 votes
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?
1 Corinthians 13:1-1395 votes
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.
Proverbs 4:2387 votes
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Colossians 3:579 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Ephesians 5:370 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Galatians 5:1966 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
John 3:1659 votes
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.
Ephesians 2:8-957 votes
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Jeremiah 17:954 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
2 Corinthians 6:1452 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Matthew 7:849 votes
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Romans 1:1645 votes
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.
Jude 1:743 votes
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.
Romans 3:2340 votes
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Acts 15:2037 votes
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Hebrews 4:1635 votes
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Psalms 2:1-1233 votes
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
1 Thessalonians 4:3-833 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 6:1831 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
What does the Bible say about true love waits?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 on the subject of true love waits. Across 2,594 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Timothy 2:22, Song of Songs 8:4, James 4:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.