12 for there are eunuchs who were born so out of their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs because of the kingdom of the heavens. He who is able to make room in his heart
Matthew 19:12 Cross References - MLV
Isaiah 39:7
7 And of your sons who will go forth from you, whom you will beget, they will take away and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Isaiah 56:3-4
3 Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Jehovah, speak, saying, Jehovah will surely separate me from his people, nor let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For Jehovah says thus of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths and choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant:
4 For Jehovah says thus of the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths and choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant:
1 Corinthians 7:32-38
32 But I wish for you to be carefree. He who is unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he will be pleasing the Lord;
33 but he who is married is anxious for the things of the world, how he may please the wife.
34 He has been divided. The unmarried woman, (also the virgin), is anxious for the things is of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, but she who is married is anxious for the things of the world, how she will be pleasing the husband.
35 Now, I say this thing is advantageous for yourselves, not in order that I may cast a noose upon you, but a non-distraction toward the decent, and devoted in the Lord.
36 But if anyone supposes he is behaving improperly over his virgin, if she is beyond her prime and thus it ought to happen, let her do what she wills; she is not sinning; let them marry.
37 But he who stands, grounded in his heart, not having necessity, but has the authority concerning his own will, and he has decided this in his own heart to keep his own virgin, he does well. 38 So-then both he who betroths does well, and he who does not betroth is doing better.
36 But if anyone supposes he is behaving improperly over his virgin, if she is beyond her prime and thus it ought to happen, let her do what she wills; she is not sinning; let them marry.
37 But he who stands, grounded in his heart, not having necessity, but has the authority concerning his own will, and he has decided this in his own heart to keep his own virgin, he does well. 38 So-then both he who betroths does well, and he who does not betroth is doing better.
1 Corinthians 9:5
5 Have we no authority to lead around a wife, (a sister in the Lord), even as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 9:15
15 But I used none of these things, and I do not write these things in order that it may become so with me; for it would be good for me rather to die, than in order that anyone should make my boasting void.