TOPICAL STUDY
 
 
                                   CELIBACY
 
 
 
 
MAT 19:10  His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his
wife, it is not good to marry.
 
MAT 19:11  But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they
to whom it is given.
 
MAT 19:12  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.
 
1CO 7:1  Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a
man not to touch a woman.
 
1CO 7:2  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife,
and let every woman have her own husband.
 
1CO 7:7  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.
 
1CO 7:8  I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if
they abide even as I.
 
1CO 7:9  But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry
than to burn.
 
1CO 7:25  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.
 
1CO 7:26  I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say,
that it is good for a man so to be.
 
1CO 7:32  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:
 
1CO 7:33  But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world,
how he may please his wife.
 
1CO 7:34  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.
 
1CO 7:35  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.
 
1CO 7:36  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.
 
1CO 7:37  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.
 
1CO 7:38  So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth
her not in marriage doeth better.
 
1CO 7:39  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.
 
1CO 7:40  But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think
also that I have the Spirit of God.
 
1TI 4:1  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;
 
 
1TI 4:2  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot
iron;
 
1TI 4:3  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.
 
REV 14:4  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are
virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were
redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
 
 
 
 
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