34 Bible Verses about Being Single

To all who are unmarried and to widows, I would say this: It is an excellent thing if they can remain single as I am.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the Lord's work, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but the woman who marries is concerned with worldly affairs, and how she can please her husband.

I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire with passion.

But this I do say, brothers. The appointed time has grown very short. From this time on those who have wives should live as though they had none,

I want you to be free from all anxiety. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's work, and how he can please the Lord.

A married man is concerned about worldly affairs, and how he can please his wife, and so his interests are divided.

As to the matters of which you wrote me, it is an excellent thing for a man to remain unmarried.

But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life?

The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is sound, your whole body will be light,

Which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life?

If you are united to a wife, do not seek to be released. If you are not, do not seek a wife.

But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

If she does separate, she must remain single or else become reconciled to him. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, it is better not to marry!"

But she will be happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is, and I think I have God's spirit as well as other people.

About unmarried women I have no command of the Lord to give you, but I will give you my opinion as that of one on whom through the Lord's mercy you can depend.

No one under sixty years of age should be put on the list of widows. A widow must have been married but once,

For some are incapable of marriage from their birth, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

make me perfectly happy by living in harmony, with the same attitude of love, with the same feeling and purpose.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is sound, your whole body is light, but when it is unsound, your body is dark.

for in a single hour this vast wealth has been destroyed!' All navigators and all who travel by sea, sailors and sea-faring men, stood a long way off

This, then, is my opinion in view of the present distress??hat it is a good thing for a man to remain just as he is.

It is for your benefit that I say this, not to put a halter on you, but to promote good order, and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

Yet not a hair of your head will perish!

For the whole Law is summed up in one saying: "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate made of a single pearl. The principal street of the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass.

Finally, you must all be harmonious, sympathizing, loving, tender-hearted, modest,

But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

A superintendent must be a man above reproach, only once married, temperate, sensible, a man of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

He said to them, "It is not everyone who can accept that, but only those who have a special gift.

As the Scripture says, "There is not a single man who is upright,