Bible verses about "eunuchs" | WPNT

²⁵ —they had exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions; in fact even their females exchanged the natural sexual function for that against nature; ²⁷ likewise also the males, abandoning the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males committing the disgraceful act with males, and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. ²⁸ So precisely because they determined not to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a debased mind, to do wrong things: ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, depravity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; gossips,

³⁵ but in every ethnic nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

²⁹ Now I say this, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, ³⁰ and those who weep as though not weeping, and those who rejoice as though not rejoicing, and those who buy as though not possessing, ³¹ and those who use this world as though not abusing it; because this world’s mode is passing away. ³² Now I want you to be without anxiety. He who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord: how he will please the Lord. ³³ While he who is married cares about the things of the world: how he will please his wife. ³⁴ The wife and the virgin are also different. She who is unmarried cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; while she who is married cares about the things of the world: how she will please her husband. ³⁵ I am saying this for your own profit, not to put a leash on you, but for what is appropriate, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction. ³⁶ Now if anyone thinks he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past her prime and thus it should be, let him do what he desires; he does not sin; let them marry. ³⁷ But he who stands steadfast in his heart, not having necessity, but has control over his own will, and has determined in his heart to preserve his own virginity, does well. ³⁸ So then, he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better. ³⁹ A woman is bound by law for as long as her husband lives, but if the man should die, she is free to be married to whom she wishes—only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is more blessed if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have God’s Spirit.

³⁴ So opening his mouth Peter said: “Really, I comprehend that God is not One to show partiality, ³⁵ but in every ethnic nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to Him.

²⁶ Then an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, “Get up and go south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza; it is desolate.” ²⁷ So he got up and went; and there, a man, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court-official of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury, who had come worshipping to Jerusalem ²⁸ —he was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading aloud the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go forward and join this chariot.”

⁹ And I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries a divorcee commits adultery.” ¹⁰ His disciples say to Him, “If that’s the situation of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry!” ¹¹ So He said to them: “Not all can assimilate this word, but those to whom it has been given. ¹² For there are eunuchs who were born that way, from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were castrated by men; and there are eunuchs who castrated themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He who is able to assimilate it, let him assimilate.”

²⁶ Then an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, “Get up and go south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza; it is desolate.” ²⁷ So he got up and went; and there, a man, an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court-official of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury, who had come worshipping to Jerusalem ²⁸ —he was returning, sitting in his chariot and reading aloud the prophet Isaiah. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go forward and join this chariot.” ³⁰ So running up Philip heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said, “Do you really understand what you are reading?” ³¹ So he said, “Well how can I, unless someone guides me?” And he urged Philip to come up and sit with him. ³² Now the portion of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He does not open His mouth. ³³ In His humiliation His justice was removed, and who will recount His generation? Because His life is removed from the earth.” ³⁴ So continuing the eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” ³⁵ So opening his mouth and beginning from this Scripture, Philip preached Jesus to him. ³⁶ Now as they were going down the road they came upon some water, and the eunuch said: “Look, water! What is keeping me from being baptized?” ³⁷ - - -³⁸ So he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. ³⁹ Now when they came up out of the water, Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, because he went on his way rejoicing.

¹² For there are eunuchs who were born that way, from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were castrated by men; and there are eunuchs who castrated themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He who is able to assimilate it, let him assimilate.”