11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.

Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have been to-night to a husband, and also I have borne sons:

for them do ye wait till that they grow up? for them do ye shut yourselves up, not to be to a husband? nay, my daughters, for more bitter to me than to you, for the hand of Jehovah hath gone out against me.'

His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

His disciples say to him, 'If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

Plead ye with your mother -- plead, (For she is not My wife, and I am not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;