11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

they shall forbid to marry and shall command men to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and have known the truth.

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

Turn, my daughters, and go back, for I am too old to have a husband. Even if I should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons,

should ye tarry for them until they are grown? Should ye stay without husbands because of them? No, my daughters, for I have greater bitterness than you because the hand of the LORD has come out against me.

The fire consumed their young men; and their virgins were not honored in marriage songs.

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

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

So then he that gives her in marriage does well, but he that does not give her in marriage does better.

Contend with your mother, contend: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore remove her whoredoms from her face and her adulteries from between her breasts;

But this I say, brothers, the time is short; for the rest, let those that have wives be as though they had none;