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Virginity has great significance before God. The Holy Virgin, more than by nature, was honored to be the Mother of the Most Essential Son of God and, always remaining a Virgin, is called the Most Holy. However, not all virginity is good and praiseworthy, as the Lord Himself declared in the Gospel about ten virgins: Of these, five were wise and five foolish (Matthew 25:2), the latter observed only outward virginity, but were internally defiled by unclean thoughts, and were also overcome by other passions: love of money and vanity, envy and hatred, anger and resentment, and in general intemperance... Why does the Lord reproach such in the Gospel: Truly I say to you, that publicans and harlots who repent ahead of you go into the Kingdom of God (Matthew 21:31); those who pretend to be sons of the Kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness (Matthew 8:12) (2, part 2, p. 22). You might be interested in: