80 Bible Verses about True Love Waits (KJV)

Here are 80 Bible verses about true love waits, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 KJV

⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ⁵Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; ⁶Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; ⁷Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. …

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2 Timothy 2:22 KJV

²²Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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Song of Solomon 8:4 KJV

⁴I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

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James 4:7 KJV

⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Hebrews 13:4 KJV

⁴Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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1 Timothy 4:12 KJV

¹²Let 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.

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

¹⁹What? 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? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 KJV

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ²And 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. ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body …

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Proverbs 4:23 KJV

²³Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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Colossians 3:5 KJV

⁵Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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Ephesians 5:3 KJV

³But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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Galatians 5:19 KJV

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV

⁸For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹Not of works, lest any man should boast.

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Jeremiah 17:9 KJV

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

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2 Corinthians 6:14 KJV

¹⁴Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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Romans 1:16 KJV

¹⁶For 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.

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Matthew 7:8 KJV

⁸For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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Jude 1:7 KJV

⁷Even 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.

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Romans 3:23 KJV

²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

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Acts 15:20 KJV

²⁰But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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Hebrews 4:16 KJV

¹⁶Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

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1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 KJV

³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: ⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; ⁵Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: ⁶That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger …

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Psalm 2:1-12 KJV

¹Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? ²The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, ³Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. ⁴He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. …

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1 Corinthians 6:18 KJV

¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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1 Timothy 5:1-2 KJV

¹Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; ²The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

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Romans 13:14 KJV

¹⁴But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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Romans 6:13 KJV

¹³Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

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Song of Solomon 1:1-17 KJV

¹The song of songs, which is Solomon’s. ²Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. ³Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. ⁴Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will …

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Psalm 1:1-5 KJV

¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. ²But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. ³And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth …

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James 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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Jeremiah 29:11 KJV

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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1 Corinthians 6:16-17 KJV

¹⁶What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. ¹⁷But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

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Romans 1:29 KJV

²⁹Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

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Proverbs 12:18 KJV

¹⁸There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

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Matthew 23:24 KJV

²⁴Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

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Matthew 20:12 KJV

¹²Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

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Romans 12:1 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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Job 9:3 KJV

³If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

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Song of Solomon 3:5 KJV

⁵I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

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Philippians 4:13 KJV

¹³I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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Ephesians 3:20 KJV

²⁰Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

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John 14:15 KJV

¹⁵If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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Romans 8:38-39 KJV

³⁸For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Proverbs 31:1-31 KJV

¹The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. ²What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? ³Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. ⁴It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: ⁵Lest …

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1 Corinthians 6:19 KJV

¹⁹What? 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?

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John 15:5 KJV

⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

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John 13:34-35 KJV

³⁴A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ³⁵By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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1 John 5:13 KJV

¹³These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

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Ephesians 2:8 KJV

⁸For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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Galatians 5:13 KJV

¹³For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV

⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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Revelation 1:1-20 KJV

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: ²Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. ³Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things …

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1 Corinthians 13:4-6 KJV

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1 Corinthians 11:1-34 KJV

¹Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. ²Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. ³But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. ⁴Every man praying or prophesying, having his head …

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Proverbs 18:9 KJV

⁹He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

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Ephesians 5:25 KJV

²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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1 Corinthians 13:13 KJV

¹³And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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1 Corinthians 13:8 KJV

⁸Charity 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.

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1 Corinthians 13:6 KJV

⁶Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

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1 Corinthians 13:5 KJV

⁵Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

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1 Corinthians 13:1 KJV

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

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Proverbs 3:5 KJV

⁵Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

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1 John 4:19 KJV

¹⁹We love him, because he first loved us.

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1 John 4:7 KJV

⁷Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

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1 John 3:18 KJV

¹⁸My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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1 Peter 4:8 KJV

⁸And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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1 Thessalonians 4:3 KJV

³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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Ephesians 2:4 KJV

⁴But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

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1 Corinthians 13:3 KJV

³And 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.

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1 Corinthians 13:2 KJV

²And 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.

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1 Corinthians 10:1-33 KJV

¹Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; ²And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; ³And did all eat the same spiritual meat; ⁴And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock …

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John 15:13 KJV

¹³Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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Matthew 22:39 KJV

³⁹And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Matthew 22:37 KJV

³⁷Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

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Matthew 11:28 KJV

²⁸Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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Psalm 46:10 KJV

¹⁰Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

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Esther 5:1-14 KJV

¹Now 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 gate of the house. ²And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in …

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Joshua 1:9 KJV

⁹Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

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