From Nave’s Topical Bible
Celibacy
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 10Passages listed
- 4Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
The passages, in Bible order (10)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 10 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Matthew 19:10–12
His disciples said to Him, “If this is the case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”
Commentary on Matthew 19:10–122 voices
(Verse 10.) His disciples said to him: If such is the case between a man and his wife, it is not expedient to marry. The burden of wives is heavy, for apart from the cause of fornication, they cannot be divorced. For what if she is drunken, if she is angry, if she is of bad morals, if she is lascivious, if she is gluttonous, if she is wandering, if she is quarrelsome, if she is abusive? She must be endured. For when we were free, we willingly subjected ourselves to servitude.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
His disciples say unto him,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- 1 Corinthians 7:1
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:12 voices
It is good for a man - Who is master of himself. Not to touch a women - That is, not to marry. So great and many are the advantages of a single life.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755Evangelical
Of the benefit of virginity and of continency. In Genesis: "Multiplying I will multiply thy sorrows and thy groanings, and in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and thy turning shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
Cyprian· Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, 258Patristic
- 1 Corinthians 7:2
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:22 voices
You have given up your wife, to whom you are bound. This is a big step you have taken. You are not abusing her, you say, but claiming that you can be chaste and live more purely. But look how your poor wife is being destroyed as a result, because she is unable to endure your purity! You should sleep with your wife, not for your sake but for hers.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.33.23-25, 253Patristic
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- 1 Corinthians 7:7–9
I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:7–92 voices
And to return to the praise of martyrdom, there is a word of the blessed Paul, who says; "Know ye not that they who run in a race strive many, but one receiveth the prize? But do ye so run, that all of you may obtain."
Cyprian· Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom, 258Patristic
For I would that all men were even as I myself,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- 1 Corinthians 7:25
Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:252 voices
The Lord also showed that certain precepts were enacted for them by Moses, on account of their hardness [of heart], and because of their unwillingness to be obedient, when, on their saying to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to send away a wife?"
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book IV, 202Patristic
Now concerning virgins,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- 1 Corinthians 7:26
Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:262 voices
Now, if in all cases he says it is best for a man thus to be; "Thou art joined to a wife seek not loosing" (that you may give no occasion to adultery); "thou art loosed from a wife, seek not a wife," that you may reserve an opportunity for yourself: "but withal, if thou shalt have married a wife, and if a virgin shall have married, she sinneth not; pressure, however, of the flesh such shall have,"-even here he is granting a permission by way of "sparing them."
Tertullian· On Modesty, 220Patristic
I suppose, therefore, that this is good,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- 1 Corinthians 7:32–40
I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the work of the Lord, how he can please the Lord.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:32–402 voices
If we look deeply into his meanings, and interpret them, second marriage will have to be termed no other than a species of fornication.
Tertullian· On Exhortation to Chastity, 220Patristic
But I would have you without carefulness,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- 1 Corinthians 9:5
Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 9:52 voices
Thus it comes to pass that "all things are lawful, but not all are expedient," so long as (it remains true that) whoever has a "permission" granted is (thereby) tried, and is (consequently) judged during the process of trial in (the case of the particular) "permission." Apostles, withal, had a "licence" to marry, and lead wives about (with them ).
Tertullian· On Exhortation to Chastity, 220Patristic
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife,.... The phrase "a sister, a wife", is an Hebraism, and answers to אחתיכלה, "my sister, spouse", Son 4:9. The Jews called their wives, sisters, not on account of religion, which also is not the meaning here; but because of the common relation that men and women, all mankind, stand in to one another, antecedent to any nearer relation, as that of man and wife.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- 1 Timothy 4:1–3
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
Commentary on 1 Timothy 4:1–32 voices
Wherefore it becomes us to watch, lest some deception be conveyed under the clothing of their phrases, and they lead away certain from the true faith. And if they venture to advance the opinions of Arius, when they see themselves proceeding in a prosperous course, nothing remains for us but to use great boldness of speech, remembering the predictions of the Apostle, which he wrote to forewarn us of such like heresies, and which it becomes us to repeat.
Athanasius of Alexandria· TO THE BISHOPS OF EGYPT 2.20, 373Patristic
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- Revelation 14:1–5
Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
Commentary on Revelation 14:1–52 voices
That in this sign of the Cross is salvation for all people who are marked on their foreheads. In Ezekiel the Lord says: "Pass through the midst of Jerusalem, and thou shalt mark the sign I upon the men's foreheads, who groan and grieve for the iniquities which are done in the midst of them." Also in the same place: "Go and smite, and do not spare your eyes. Have no pity on the old man, and the youth, and the virgin, and slay little children and women, that they may be utterly destroyed.
Cyprian· Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, 258Patristic
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed