TOPICAL BIBLE
Celibacy
28 references in this topic.
Matthew 19:10His disciples say to him, ‘If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.’Matthew 19:11And he said to them, ‘All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;Matthew 19:12for there are eunuchs who from the mother’s womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive it—let him receive.’1 Corinthians 7:1And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,1 Corinthians 7:2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;1 Corinthians 7:7for I wish all men to be even as I myself am; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.1 Corinthians 7:8And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;1 Corinthians 7:9and if they have not continence—let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;1 Corinthians 7:25And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man that the matter be thus:—1 Corinthians 7:32And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;1 Corinthians 7:33and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.1 Corinthians 7:34The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.1 Corinthians 7:35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,1 Corinthians 7:36and if any one doth think it to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin—let him marry.1 Corinthians 7:37And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart—not having necessity—and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart—to keep his own virgin—doth well;1 Corinthians 7:38so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.1 Corinthians 7:39A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will—only in the Lord;1 Corinthians 7:40and she is happier if she may so remain—according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.1 Corinthians 9:5have we not authority a sister—a wife—to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?1 Timothy 4:1And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,1 Timothy 4:2in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry—to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,Revelation 14:1And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads;Revelation 14:2and I heard a voice out of the heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder, and a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps,Revelation 14:3and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth;Revelation 14:4these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men—a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb—Revelation 14:5and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.
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