{"id":3945,"date":"2026-03-16T00:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:33:25","slug":"celibacy-vs-marriage-kjv-king-james-version-bible-verse-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/celibacy-vs-marriage-kjv-king-james-version-bible-verse-list\/","title":{"rendered":"CELIBACY VS. MARRIAGE &#8212; KJV (King James Version) Bible Verse List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/celibacy-vs.-marriage-optimized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/celibacy-vs.-marriage-optimized.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/celibacy-vs.-marriage-optimized-557x696.png 557w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/celibacy-vs.-marriage-optimized-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#Scriptures #BibleStudy #BibleVerses #Celibacy #Celibate #Marriage #Marry<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother&#8217;s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven&#8217;s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Matthew 19:11-12, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; FORBIDDING TO MARRY, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 Timothy 4:1-3, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 Corinthians 9:5, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when Jesus was come into Peter&#8217;s house, he saw his wife&#8217;s mother laid, and sick of a fever.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Matthew 8:14, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn . . . Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 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. But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 Corinthians 7:8-9, 27-29, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Proverbs 18:22, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 Timothy 3:2, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 Timothy 3:12, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Titus 1:6, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Genesis 2:24, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Matthew 19:5-6, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mark 10:8, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1 Corinthians 6:16, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ephesians 5:31, KJV<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you would like more info regarding the origin of these KJV Bible verse lists, go to <a title=\"KJV Bible Verse List\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/VerseLists\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/VerseLists\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank-you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Scriptures #BibleStudy #BibleVerses #Celibacy #Celibate #Marriage #Marry &#8220;But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. 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