24 Bible Verses about Waiting Till Marriage

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire with passion.

like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

If they want to find out about anything, they should ask their husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

Here I stand knocking at the door. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and dine with him, and he with me.

Blessed are the slaves whom their master will find on the watch when he comes. I tell you, he will gird up his robe and make them take their places at table, and go around and wait on them.

"When someone invites you to a wedding supper, do not take the best place, for someone more distinguished than you are may have been invited,

Everyone ought to remain in the station in which he was called.

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

But he did not live with her as a husband until she had had a son, and he named the child Jesus.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.

There was also a prophetess there named Hannah, the daughter of Phanuel, who belonged to the tribe of Asher. She was very old, for after her girlhood she had been married for seven years,

But when the king came in to view the guests, he saw among them a man who did not have on wedding clothes.

plotting to entrap him in something he might say.

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the poorest place, so that when your host comes in, he will say to you, 'My friend, come to a better place.' So you will be shown consideration before all the other guests.

So you must be on the watch, for you do not know either the day or the hour.

Then each of them was given a white robe and they were told to be quiet a little while longer, until the number of their fellow-slaves and their brothers, who were to be killed as they had been, should be complete.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him.

Do you not know that those who do the work about the Temple get their living from the Temple, and those who attend to the altar divide the sacrifices with the altar?

As the bridegroom was slow in coming, they all grew drowsy and fell asleep.

And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, come down out of heaven from God, like a bride dressed and ready to meet her husband.

Let us be glad and triumphant and give him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.

And another of his disciples said to him, "Let me first go, sir, and bury my father."

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,