Bible verses about "virginity" | Wesley

³² The unmarried man careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. ³³ But the married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife. ³⁴ There is a 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 spirit: but the married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. ³⁵ And this I say for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but that ye may decently wait upon the Lord without distraction.

³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; ⁴ That every one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; ⁵ Not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles who know not God.

¹ I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service. ² 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.

⁴ These are they who had not been defiled with women; for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were bought from among men: first-fruits to God and the Lamb.

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. ⁷ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife: ⁸ And they twain shall be one flesh; so then they are no more twain but one flesh.

⁹ Know ye not, that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, ¹⁰ nor sodomites, Nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor revilers, nor the rapacious shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. ¹⁹ Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God? ²⁰ And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.

³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; ⁴ That every one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; ⁵ Not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles who know not God. ⁶ That none circumvent or defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have also told you before and testified. ⁷ For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. ⁸ He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man but God; who hath also given you his Holy Spirit.

⁸ But to the unmarried and the widows I say, It is good for them, if they remain even as I. ⁹ But if they have not power over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

⁴ Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

² Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.