Continence

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Bible verses about “Continence”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
• Matthew 5:27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
• Matthew 5:28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Matthew 19:12For 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.
• Romans 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• 1 Corinthians 7:1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
• 1 Corinthians 7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
• 1 Corinthians 7:3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
• 1 Corinthians 7:4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
• 1 Corinthians 7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
• 1 Corinthians 7:6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
• 1 Corinthians 7:7For 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 7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
• 1 Corinthians 7:9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
• 1 Corinthians 7:25Now 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.
• 1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
• 1 Corinthians 7:27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
• 1 Corinthians 7:28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
• 1 Corinthians 7:29But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
• 1 Corinthians 7:36But 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.
• 1 Corinthians 7:37Nevertheless 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.
• 1 Corinthians 7:38So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
• 1 Corinthians 9:27But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• 1 Timothy 4:12Let 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.
• 1 Timothy 5:1Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
• 1 Timothy 5:2The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
• Revelation 14:1And 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.
• Revelation 14:4These 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.
• Revelation 14:5And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
• Genesis 39:7And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
• Genesis 39:8But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
• Genesis 39:9There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
• Genesis 39:10And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
• Genesis 39:11And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
• Genesis 39:12And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
• 2 Samuel 11:8And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
• 2 Samuel 11:9But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
• 2 Samuel 11:10And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
• 2 Samuel 11:11And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.