True Love Waits

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

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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

Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

…you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;