Matthew 19:12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”

Cross References

Isaiah 39:7

Some of your own sons who are born to you shall be taken away; they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Matthew 19:11

But he said to them, “Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given.

Matthew 19:13

Then little children were being brought to him in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them;

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing this so that they may be applied in my case. Indeed, I would rather die than that—no one will deprive me of my ground for boasting!

1 Corinthians 9:5

Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?

Revelation 14:4

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins; these follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from humankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,