11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

"You are not to take a wife, nor are you to have sons or daughters in this place."

So go on back, my daughters! Be on your way! I'm too old to remarry. If I were to say that I'm hoping for a husband tonight and then also bore sons this very night,

would you wait for them until they were grown? Would you refrain from marriage for them? No, my daughters! I'm more deeply grieved than you, because the LORD is working against me!"

The young men were consumed by fire, and the virgins had no marriage celebrations.

His disciples asked him, "If that is the relationship of a man with his wife, it's not worth getting married!"

Now about what you asked: "Is it advisable for a man not to marry?"

But if you do get married, you have not sinned. And if a virgin gets married, she has not sinned. However, these people will experience trouble in this life, and I want to spare you from that.

So then the man who marries the virgin acts appropriately, but the man who refrains from marriage does even better.

"Call your mother to account, call her for she is not my wife, and I'm not her husband. Let her do away with her seductive looks and remove her adultery from between her breasts.

This is what I mean, brothers: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,