Bible Verses About Continence

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

and this I say by way of concurrence--not of command,

for 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.

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am ;

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

And 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:

I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man that the matter be thus: --

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened--that both those having wives may be as not having;

and 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.

And 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;

so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;

these 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--

and in their mouth there was not found guile, for unblemished are they before the throne of God.