Bible Verses about “priests marrying”
The Bible contains 20 verses about priests marrying across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“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.”
“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”
“¶ 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 every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:”
“But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness.”
“For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.”
“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;”
“Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.”
“Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.”
“Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”
“Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.”
“This [is] a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.”
“These things command and teach.”
“¶ If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.”
“For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.”