Bible verses about "virginity" | Worrell

³² But I wish you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; ³³ but he that is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please his wife, ³⁴ and has become divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that is married is anxious for the things of the world, that she may please her husband. ³⁵ And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for that which is seemly, and compatible with constant devotion to the Lord without distraction.

³ For this is the will of God—even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; ⁴ that each one of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor; ⁵ not in passion of desire, even as the gentiles, who know not God;

¹ I beseech you, therefore, brethren, through the mercies of God, to present, your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service; ² and he not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

⁴ These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, a first fruit to God and to the Lamb.

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation, 'Male and female made He them.' ⁷ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, [and shall cleave to his wife], ⁸ and the two shall become one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

⁹ Or 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 men, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin which a man commits is without the body; but he that commits adultery sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom ye have from God, and that ye are not your own? ²⁰ For ye were bought with a price; glorify God, therefore, in your body.

³ For this is the will of God—even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; ⁴ that each one of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor; ⁵ not in passion of desire, even as the gentiles, who know not God; ⁶ that he go not beyond and gain an advantage over his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we also told you before, and solemnly testified. ⁷ For God did not call us unto uncleanness, but in sanctification. ⁸ Therefore, indeed, he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, Who giveth His Holy Spirit to you.

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

⁴ Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

² but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.