Continence
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Continence’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Job 31:1 OT
“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
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Matthew 5:27 NT
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’
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Matthew 5:28 NT
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
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For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it,…
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Romans 13:13 NT
Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
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Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband give his wife…
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Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to…
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But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry. But he who stands steadfast in his…
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but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
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Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
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the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
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I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
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These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
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In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
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After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.” But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my…
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David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him. But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and…
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Ruth 3:6-13 OT
She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her. When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and…
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Matthew 1:24 NT
Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;
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Matthew 1:25 NT
and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.
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But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.