Matthew 19:12

Catholic Public Domain Version

For there are chaste persons who were born so from their mother's womb, and there are chaste persons who have been made so by men, and there are chaste persons who have made themselves chaste for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Whoever is able to grasp this, let him grasp it."

Cross References

Isaiah 39:7

And your children, who will issue from you, whom you will produce, they will be taken away. And they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon."

Matthew 19:11

And he said to them: "Not everyone is able to grasp this word, but only those to whom it has been given.

Matthew 19:13

Then they brought to him little children, so that he would place his hands upon them and pray. But the disciples rebuked them.

1 Corinthians 9:15

Yet I have used none of these things. And I have not written so that these things may be done for me. For it is better for me to die, rather than to let anyone empty out my glory.

1 Corinthians 9:5

Do we not have the authority to travel around with a woman who is a sister, just as do the other Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Revelation 14:4

These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are Virgins. These follow the Lamb wherever he will go. These were redeemed from men as the first-fruits for God and for the Lamb.