Bible Verses about “nuns”

“But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.”

“But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;”

“There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband.”

“but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.”

“This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.”

“Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.”

“But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.”

“But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.”

“the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.”

“"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,”

“Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,”

“He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,”

“who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."”