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What does the Bible say about celibacy?

14 verses about celibacy, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about celibacy

1 Corinthians 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: 7 votes
1 Corinthians 7:1 — Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 6 votes
1 Corinthians 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 5 votes
1 Corinthians 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. 5 votes
Matthew 19:10 — His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. 4 votes
1 Corinthians 7:2 — Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 4 votes
1 Corinthians 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. 3 votes
1 Timothy 3:2 — A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; 3 votes
1 Timothy 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; 3 votes
Matthew 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. 2 votes
1 Corinthians 6:9 — 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, 2 votes
1 Corinthians 9:5 — Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 2 votes
1 Corinthians 10:13 — 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. 2 votes
Revelation 14:1 — And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. 2 votes

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1 Corinthians (9), Matthew (2), 1 Timothy (2), Revelation (1)

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