MYTH #4 Priests should be married

Priests willing take the vow of celibacy. It comes from Scripture.

1Corinthians 7:32 But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; 

Matthew 19:10 The disciples [!] said to Him, "If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry." 

Matthew 19:11 But He said to them, "Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given. 

Matthew 19:12 "For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it." 

Revelation 14:4 These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they [fn] have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb. 

1Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 

1Corinthians 7:2 But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

1Corinthians 7:7 Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that. 

1Corinthians 7:8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.