Bible Verses About Celibacy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for celibacy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,441 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:32-40. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Celibacy
1 Corinthians 7:32-40189 votes
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:
1 Corinthians 7:1-40169 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:7-9138 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20131 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 7:2117 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Matthew 19:10-1298 votes
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
1 Timothy 3:293 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy 4:1-373 votes
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;
1 Corinthians 7:2671 votes
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians 10:1365 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:955 votes
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,
1 Corinthians 7:152 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Revelation 14:1-552 votes
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.
Matthew 19:1248 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 9:547 votes
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?
1 Corinthians 7:740 votes
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.
Matthew 19:1034 votes
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Matthew 19:11-1232 votes
But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
1 Timothy 1:9-1032 votes
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
Romans 12:231 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Genesis 1:2829 votes
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1 Corinthians 7:3229 votes
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:
Hebrews 13:429 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Revelation 14:428 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 7:2527 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about celibacy?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:32-40 on the subject of celibacy. Across 2,441 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, 1 Corinthians 7:7-9, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.