45 Bible Verses about Being Single

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world -- how she may please her husband.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

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

"Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

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

Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?

Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

But to the married I command -- not I, but the Lord -- that the wife not leave her husband

His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

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 eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

And not a hair of your head will perish.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

"Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn't sin.

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.