Bible Verses About Nuns And The Order Of Virgins

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

Direct verse about virgins

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

Direct priestly virgin passage.

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

Marriage and virginity discussed directly

Honour widows that are widows indeed.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

Apocalyptic virgin language linked to purity

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Contrasts wife and virgin

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Widow-focused church instruction.

A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

Priestly marriage to a virgin.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Says a virgin marrying has not sinned

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.

Enrollment rule for widows.

But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

Younger widows and remarriage warning.

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

Shows a biblical pattern of virgin daughters prophesying, but not church order

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Marriage question involving a virgin

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

Purity instruction for younger women.

And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

Parable with virgins used by early Christians

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

Church care for truly widows.

And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.