11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, and thou shalt not have sons nor daughters in this place.

Return, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, should I even have a husband to-night, and should I also bear sons,

would ye wait on that account till they were grown? Would ye stay on that account from having husbands? No, my daughters, for I am in much more bitterness than you; for the hand of Jehovah is gone out against me.

The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in nuptial song;

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better.

Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any: