Bible Verses About Celibacy

Then sayd his disciples to him, If the matter be so betweene man and wife, it is not good to marry.

But he sayd vnto them, All men cannot receiue this thing, saue they to whom it is giuen.

For there are some eunuches, which were so borne of their mothers belly: and there be some eunuches, which be gelded by men: and there be some eunuches, which haue gelded them selues for the kingdome of heauen. He that is able to receiue this, let him receiue it.

Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman.

Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

For I woulde that all men were euen as I my selfe am: but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, and another after that.

Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.

But if they cannot abstaine, let them marrie: for it is better to marrie then to burne.

Nowe concerning virgines, I haue no commandement of the Lord: but I giue mine aduise, as one that hath obtained mercie of the Lord to be faithfull.

I suppose then this to bee good for the present necessitie: I meane that it is good for a man so to be.

And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.

But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is difference also betweene a virgine and a wife: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth for the things of the worlde, howe shee may please her husband.

And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee follow that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.

But if any man thinke that it is vncomely for his virgine, if shee passe the flower of her age, and neede so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them be maried.

Neuerthelesse, hee that standeth firme in his heart, that hee hath no neede, but hath power ouer his owne will, and hath so decreed in his heart, that hee will keepe his virgine, hee doeth well.

So then hee that giueth her to mariage, doeth well, but he that giueth her not to mariage, doeth better.

The wife is bounde by the Lawe, as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome she will, onely in the Lord.

But shee is more blessed, if she so abide, in my iudgement: and I thinke that I haue also the Spirite of God.

Now the Spirit speaketh euidently, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall giue heede vnto spirits of errour, and doctrines of deuils,

Which speake lies through hypocrisie, and haue their cosciences burned with an hote yron,

Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to abstaine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.

Then I looked, and lo, a Lambe stood on mount Sion, and with him an hundreth, fourtie and foure thousand, hauing his Fathers Name written in their foreheads.

And I heard a voyce from heauen, as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of a great thunder: and I heard the voyce of harpers harping with their harpes.

And they sung as it were a newe song before the throne, and before the foure beasts, and the Elders: and no man could learne that song, but the hundreth, fourtie and foure thousand, which were bought from the earth.