Continence

““I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?”

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’”

“But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

“For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.””

“Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.”

“Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.”

“Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.”

“However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.”