Bible verses about "eunuchs" | Thomson

⁷ But when Abdemelech, the Ethiopian, who was in the king's family, heard that they had put Jeremias in the dungeon, as the king was at the gate of Benjamin, ⁸ he went out to him and spoke to the king, and said, ⁹ Thou hast done wrong in ordering this man to be put to death out of the way of the famine, for there is no bread in the city. ¹⁰ Thereupon the king gave orders to Abdemelech, saying, Take hence with thee thirty men and draw him up out of the dungeon, that he may not die. ¹¹ So Abdemelech took the men and went to the king's house, into the cellar, and took thence old rags and old ropes and threw them down to Jeremias into the dungeon, ¹² and said, Put those under the ropes. And when Jeremias had done so, ¹³ they drew him up with the ropes out of the dungeon. And Jeremias abode in the court of the prison.

¹⁵ Now there had come to Jeremias in the court of the prison a word of the Lord, saying, ¹⁶ Go and say to Abdemelech the Ethiopian, Thus said the Lord the God of Israel, Behold I will bring my words on this city for evils and not for good. ¹⁷ But I will save thee on that day and not deliver thee into the hands of those men of whom thou art afraid. ¹⁸ For I will save thee and thou shalt not fall by the sword. And thou shalt have thy life for a spoil, because thou hast trusted in me, said the Lord.

³⁵ but in every nation he who feareth him and worketh righteousness is acceptable to him.

³⁴ Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons; ³⁵ but in every nation he who feareth him and worketh righteousness is acceptable to him.

²⁵ They changed the truth of God for a falsity, and worshipped and served the creature, and not the creator who is blessed forever, Amen: ²⁶ therefore God gave them up to infamous passions; for even their women perverted the instinct of nature; ²⁷ and in like manner the males also leaving the sex, were inflamed with desires towards each other, which they most shamefully indulged, men with men, and received in themselves the retribution which was justly due to their error. ²⁸ And as they did not search out God to have constantly a due sense of him, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things unseemly, ²⁹ filled as they were with all manner of injustice, lewdness, maliciousness, covetousness, mischief, being full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, evil habits; being whisperers,

²⁹ and say this, brethren, that the time with regard to what remaineth, is shortened, so that they who have wives should be as if they had them not; ³⁰ and they who weep, as if they wept not; and they who rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they who buy, as not possessing; and they ³¹ who use this world, as not using it immoderately. For the scenery of this world is shifting; ³² and I wish you to be free from anxious cares. He who is unmarried careth for the things of the Lord how he may please the Lord; ³³ but he who is married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife. ³⁴ There is the like difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she who is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. ³⁵ Now this I say for your own benefit, not with a view to lay a snare for you; but for that which is becoming and best adapted to a steady, uninterrupted adherence to the Lord. ³⁶ But if any man thinketh that he bringeth reproach on his virgin; if she be past the prime, this then should be the rule, What she willeth, let him do, he doth not sin; let them marry: ³⁷ but whoever hath come to a. fixed determination in his heart, using no constraint, but hath power with respect to his own will and hath determined in his heart to keep his virgin, he doth well. ³⁸ So that he who giveth in marriage doth well, but he who giveth not in marriage doth better. ³⁹ A wife is bound by law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband die; she is at liberty to many whom she will; only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier, if she continue as she is. This is my opinion, and I think I have a spirit of God.

⁷ But when Abdemelech, the Ethiopian, who was in the king's family, heard that they had put Jeremias in the dungeon, as the king was at the gate of Benjamin, ⁸ he went out to him and spoke to the king, and said, ⁹ Thou hast done wrong in ordering this man to be put to death out of the way of the famine, for there is no bread in the city. ¹⁰ Thereupon the king gave orders to Abdemelech, saying, Take hence with thee thirty men and draw him up out of the dungeon, that he may not die.

¹ In the third year of the reign of Joakim king of Juda, Nabuchodonosar the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. ² And the Lord delivered into his hand Joakim king of Juda and a part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried to the land of Sennaar to the house of his god: and having deposited the vessels in the treasure house of his god, ³ the king ordered Asphanez his high chamberlain to bring in of the children of the captivity of Israel, namely, of the seed royal and of the nobility, ⁴ some youths who had no blemish, and who were of a good countenance, studious of every science, improved in knowledge and understanding and qualified to stand in the house before the king; and to instruct them in the learning and language of the Chaldeans. ⁵ And the king ordered them a daily allowance from the king's table, and of the wine for his own drinking; and that they should be dieted for three years and after that stand before the king. ⁶ Now there were among them of the children of Juda, Daniel and Ananias and Azarias and Misael; ⁷ and the high chamberlain gave them names, to Daniel, Baltasar; and to Ananias, Sedrach; and to Misael, Misach; and Azarias, Abdenago. ⁸ And Daniel having resolved not to pollute himself with the table of the king nor with the wine which he drank, intreated the chamberlain that he might not be denied. ⁹ Now God had brought Daniel into favour and compassion with the high chamberlain, ¹⁰ therefore the chamberlain said to Daniel, I am afraid of my lord the king who hath appointed your meat and your drink. Perhaps he may see your countenance more uncomely than the youths of your age, and you may endanger my head with the king. ¹¹ Thereupon Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the high chamberlain had set over Daniel, Ananias, Misael and Azarias, ¹² Try thy servants, we pray thee, ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink; ¹³ and let our countenances and the countenances of the youths who eat of the king's table be examined in thy presence; and, as thou seest, deal with thy servants. ¹⁴ So he hearkened to them and tried them ten days. ¹⁵ And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared more comely and their flesh firmer than that of the youths, who had eaten of the king's table; ¹⁶ whereupon Amelsad took away the food and the wine for their drink and gave them vegetables. ¹⁷ And as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and understanding in all literature and science; and Daniel was skilled in all visions and dreams. ¹⁸ And at the end of the years which the king had appointed for introducing them, the high chamberlain brought them in before Nabuchodonosar. ¹⁹ And the king conversed with them. And among them all there were none found equal to Daniel and Ananias and Misael and Azarias. So they stood before the king. ²⁰ And in every subject of wisdom and science on which the king questioned them he found them ten times more skilled than all the soothsayers and the magians who were in the realm. ²¹ And Daniel continued to the first year of Cyrus the king.

²⁶ In the mean while an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise and go southward on the road which leadeth down from Jerusalem to Gaza, namely, the desert road. ²⁷ So he arose and went. And lo! a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, a grandee of Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was her high treasurer, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸ and was on his return, was sitting in a chariot and reading the prophet Esaias. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and keep close to that chariot.

⁹ Now I say to you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for whoredom and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he who marrieth her who was put away committeth adultery. ¹⁰ His disciples say to him, If such be the case between the husband and wife, it is not expedient to marry. ¹¹ Whereupon he said to them, All men cannot admit this inference. But with respect to them to whom it is granted ¹² [for there are some who have been eunuchs from their birth, and some have been made eunuchs by men, and there are some who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven] let him admit it, who can admit it.

¹ A man who is made a eunuch by bruising, or by cutting, shall not come into the congregation of the Lord;

¹ Thus saith the Lord, Keep judgment and practise righteousness; for my salvation is near, just ready to come, and my saving kindness to be revealed. ² Happy the man who doth these things and the mortal who adhereth to them; and who is careful not to profane my sabbaths, and who restraineth his hands from doing evil. ³ Let not the stranger who cleaveth to the Lord say, "The Lord will separate me from his people." Nor let the eunuch say, "I am a dry tree." ⁴ For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, whoever of them shall keep my sabbaths, and chuse the things in which I delight and adhere to my covenant; ⁵ I will give them, in my house and within my walls, an honourable place better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not fail. ⁶ And with regard to the strangers who cleave to the Lord to serve him, and love the name of the Lord; to be his man servants and maid servants, even all who are careful not to profane my sabbaths and who adhere to my covenant; ⁷ them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings, and their sacrifices shall be acceptable on mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations. ⁸ THE LORD who gathereth the dispersed of Israel said, "Because I will gather a congregation for him, " ⁹ O all ye beasts of the field come! all ye beasts of the forests, devour! ¹⁰ you see that they are all blind; that they have not knowledge. They are dumb dogs, they cannot bark: they are asleep in bed, they love to slumber: ¹¹ yet these dogs are of untamed appetite; they can never have enough. They are indeed mischievous, they have no consideration. They all followed their own courses, every one according to his own purpose.

²⁶ In the mean while an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise and go southward on the road which leadeth down from Jerusalem to Gaza, namely, the desert road. ²⁷ So he arose and went. And lo! a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, a grandee of Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was her high treasurer, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸ and was on his return, was sitting in a chariot and reading the prophet Esaias. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and keep close to that chariot. ³⁰ So Philip ran close up and heard him reading the prophet Esaias. Whereupon he said, Dost thou understand what thou art reading? ³¹ To which he replied, How can I unless some one guide me? Then he invited Philip to come up and take a seat with him. ³² Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. ³³ In his humiliation his legal trial is taken away. Who will declare his manner of life? Because his life is taken from the earth. ³⁴ And the eunuch addressing Philip, said, Of whom, I pray thee, doth the prophet say this? Of himself or of some other person? ³⁵ Then Philip opened His mouth, and beginning with this scripture, told him the glad tidings of Jesus. ³⁶ And as they continued the journey, they came to a certain water. Whereupon the eunuch said, Behold! here is water. What hindereth my being baptized? ³⁷ And Philip said, If thou believest with thy whole heart, it may be done. To which he replied, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. ³⁸ Then he ordered the chariot to stop. And they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. ³⁹ And when they came up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord conveyed Philip away. And the eunuch saw him no more. For he proceeded on in his journey rejoicing,

³ Let not the stranger who cleaveth to the Lord say, "The Lord will separate me from his people." Nor let the eunuch say, "I am a dry tree." ⁴ For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, whoever of them shall keep my sabbaths, and chuse the things in which I delight and adhere to my covenant; ⁵ I will give them, in my house and within my walls, an honourable place better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not fail.

¹² [for there are some who have been eunuchs from their birth, and some have been made eunuchs by men, and there are some who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven] let him admit it, who can admit it.