Continence

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• General scriptures concerningJob 31:1Matthew 5:27Matthew 5:28Matthew 19:12Romans 13:131 Corinthians 7:1–91 Corinthians 7:25–291 Corinthians 7:36–381 Corinthians 9:27Colossians 3:51 Timothy 4:121 Timothy 5:11 Timothy 5:2Revelation 14:1Revelation 14:4Revelation 14:5
• See Chastity
• INSTANCES OF
• JosephGenesis 39:7–12
• Uriah2 Samuel 11:8–13
• BoazRuth 3:6–13
• Joseph, husband of MaryMatthew 1:24Matthew 1:25
• Paul1 Corinthians 7:8

The passages, in Bible order (22)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 39:7–12

   and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

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2. Ruth 3:6–13

   So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.

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3. 2 Samuel 11:8–13

   Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:8–131 voice

   “Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet - Uriah had come off a journey, and needed this refreshment; but David’s design was that he should go and lie with his wife, that the child now conceived should pass for his, the honor of Bath-sheba be screened, and his own crime concealed. At this time he had no design of the murder of Uriah, nor of taking Bath-sheba to wife. A mess of meat from the king - All this was artfully contrived.

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4. Job 31:1

   “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

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   “I made a covenant with mine eyes - The first virtue of his private life to which Job refers is chastity. Such was his sense of the importance of this, and of the danger to which man was exposed, that he had solemnly resolved not to think upon a young female. The phrase here, “I made a covenant with mine eyes,” is poetical, meaning that he solemnly resolved. A covenant is of a sacred and binding nature; and the strength of his resolution was as great as if he had made a solemn compact.

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5. Matthew 1:24

   When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and embraced Mary as his wife.

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6. Matthew 1:25

   But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a Son. And he gave Him the name Jesus.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 1:252 voices

   “(Cont. Helvid. c. 5.) Helvidius is at much superfluous trouble to make this word know refer to carnal knowledge rather than to acquaintance, as though any had ever denied that; or as if the follies to which he replies had ever occurred to any person of common understanding.

   “(Verse 25.) And he took his wife, and did not know her until she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name Jesus. From this passage, some very perverse people suspect and say that Mary had other children, arguing that the term firstborn is only used when someone has siblings. However, this is contrary to the custom in the divine scriptures, where the term firstborn is not applied to someone who has siblings, but to the one who is born first. Read the aforementioned book against Helvidius.

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7. Matthew 5:27

   You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’

   ›Commentary on Matthew 5:272 voices

   “Between πάθος and προπάθεια, that is between actual passion and the first spontaneous movement of the mind, there is this difference: passion is at once a sin; the spontaneous movement of the mind, though it partakes of the evil of sin, is yet not held for an offence committedh. When then one looks upon a woman, and his mind is therewith smitten, there is propassion; if he yields to this he passes from propassion to passion, and then it is no longer the will but the opportunity to sin that is wanting.

   “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery - See the notes at Mat 5:21. Our Saviour in these verses explains the seventh commandment. It is probable that the Pharisees had explained this commandment, as they had the sixth, as extending only to the external act; and that they regarded evil thoughts and a wanton imagination as of little consequence, or as not forbidden by the law.

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8. Matthew 5:28

   But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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   “Between πάθος and προπάθεια, that is between actual passion and the first spontaneous movement of the mind, there is this difference: passion is at once a sin; the spontaneous movement of the mind, though it partakes of the evil of sin, is yet not held for an offence committedh. When then one looks upon a woman, and his mind is therewith smitten, there is propassion; if he yields to this he passes from propassion to passion, and then it is no longer the will but the opportunity to sin that is wanting.

   “(Verse 28.) Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Between passion and pre-passion, that is, between feeling and intense feeling, there is a difference: passion is considered a vice, while pre-passion, although it carries the fault of initiation, is not held accountable in the crime. Therefore, whoever looks at a woman and his soul is tickled, he is struck by pre-passion.

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9. Matthew 19:12

   For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

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   “He speaks of three kinds of eunuchs, of whom two are carnal, and one spiritual. One, those who are so born of their mother's womb; another, those whom enemies or courtly luxury has made so; a third, those who have made themselves so for the kingdom of heaven, and who might have been men, but become eunuchs for Christ. To them the reward is promised, for to the others whose continence was involuntary, nothing is due. (cf. Orig. in loc.) Or we may say otherwise.

   “Eunuchs - Ευνουχος, from ευνην εχειν, to have the care of the bed or bedchamber; this being the principal employment of eunuchs in the eastern countries, particularly in the apartments of queens and princesses. These are they whom our Lord says are made eunuchs by men, merely for the above purpose. So born from their mother’s womb - Such as are naturally incapable of marriage, and consequently should not contract any.

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10. Romans 13:13

    Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

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    “Whence the apostle also says: "The night is past, and the day is at hand." Therefore this present age is the night: but the age to come is the day. Whence the apostle says: "The night is past, and the day is at hand. Let us walk honestly, as in the day," he says. As we are to live in the day, that is, in the age to come, so let us now live.

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11. 1 Corinthians 7:1–9

    Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

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12. 1 Corinthians 7:8

    Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.

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    “But when things lawful are (only) granted by way of indulgence, who hope for things unlawful? "To the unmarried" also, "and widows," he says, "It is good, by his example, to persevere" (in their present state); "but if they were too weak, to marry; because it is preferable to marry than to bum." With what fires, I pray you, is it preferable to "burn"-(the fires) of concupiscence, or (the fires) of penalty? Nay, but if fornication is pardonable, it will not be an object of concupiscence.

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13. 1 Corinthians 7:25–29

    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.

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14. 1 Corinthians 7:36–38

    However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.

    ›Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:36–381 voice

    “Wherefore he rejects those of the more incontinent, who, under the influence of vain-glory, would advance to this state, advising them to marry, lest in their time of manly strength, the flesh stirring up the desires and passions, they should be goaded on to defile the soul. For let us consider what he lays down:

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15. 1 Corinthians 9:27

    No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

    ›Commentary on 1 Corinthians 9:272 voices

    “And so Paul, like a good athlete, not only knew how to avoid the blows of opposing powers, but also how to strike back. Therefore he says: I beat my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. And so, like a good athlete, he deserved to reach the crown.

    “But I keep under my body,.... The allusion is still to fighters, who, by cuffing and boxing, give their antagonists black and blue eyes, which is the proper signification of the word here used: so it is said (u) of Menedemus, that in questions or scholastic exercises, he was so vehement and pugnacious, that he never departed without υπωπια φερων, "carrying away black and blue eyes".

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16. Colossians 3:5

    Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

    ›Commentary on Colossians 3:52 voices

    But the saints, and they who truly practise virtue, "mortify their members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passions, evil concupiscence;" and, as the result of this, are pure and without spot, confiding in the promise of our Saviour, who said, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." These, having become dead to the world, and renounced the merchandise of the world, gain an honourable death; for, "precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints."

    “Mortify therefore your members - Since you are dead to sin and the world, and are to appear with Christ in the glories of his kingdom, subdue every carnal and evil propensity of your nature. The word mortify means to put to death (Rom 8:13, note; Gal 5:24, note), and the meaning here is that they were entirely to subdue their evil propensities, so that they would have no remains of life; that is, they were not at all to indulge them.

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