Bible Verses about “celibacy”
Found 50 verses (ordered by relevance) about “celibacy” in the KJV version of the Bible
“What? 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?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us to peace.”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”
“Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
“But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.”
“¶ And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:”
“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.”
“And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.”
“But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.”
“I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.”
“¶ The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.”
“Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.”
“¶ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”
“For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?”
“But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.”
“Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.”
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
“For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.”
“But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:”
“There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.”
“The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.”
“But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.”
“And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.”
“¶ But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.”
“¶ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.”
“¶ But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.”
“So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better.”
“Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.”
“But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.”
“But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.”
“Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.”
“Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.”
“Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.”
“Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.”
“But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;”
“I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.”
“But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.”
“Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.”
“Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.”
“For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ's servant.”
“Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.”
“And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;”
“And they that use this world, as not abusing [it]: for the fashion of this world passeth away.”
“¶ Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.”
“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;”
“¶ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;”
“‹For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from› [their] ‹mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive› [it], ‹let him receive› [it].”
“Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.”
“Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;”