11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from [certain kinds of] foods which God has created to be gratefully shared by those who believe and have [a clear] knowledge of the truth.

“You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place (Jerusalem).”

Go back, my daughters, go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, and if I actually had a husband tonight and even gave birth to sons,

would you wait until they were grown? Would you go without marrying? No, my daughters; for it is much more difficult for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has gone against me.”

The fire [of war] devoured His young men,
And His [bereaved] virgins had no wedding songs.

The disciples said to Jesus, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”

Now as to the matters of which you wrote: It is good (beneficial, advantageous) for a man not to touch a woman [outside marriage].

But if you do marry, you have not sinned [in doing so]; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned [in doing so]. Yet those [who marry] will have troubles (special challenges) in this life, and I am trying to spare you that.

So then both the father who gives his virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

“Contend with your mother (nation); contend,
For she is not my wife and I am not her husband;
And have her remove her [marks of] prostitution from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts

But I say this, believers: the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they did not;