11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,

Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.

Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song.

The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;