Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother'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's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Which were made

Bible References

Which were made

Isaiah 39:7
Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"
Isaiah 56:3
No foreigner who becomes a follower of the Lord should say, 'The Lord will certainly exclude me from his people.' The eunuch should not say, 'Look, I am like a dried-up tree.'"

Which have

1 Corinthians 7:32
And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
1 Corinthians 9:5
Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?

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