1 Corinthians 7:1
With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It would be well for a man to remain single.
1 Corinthians 7:8
My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be well for them to remain as I am myself.
1 Corinthians 7:26-27
I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best-that a man should remain as he is.
1 Corinthians 7:37-38
On the other hand, a father, who has definitely made up his mind, and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has come to the decision, in his own mind, to keep his unmarried daughter at home will be doing right.
Matthew 19:10-11
"If that," said the disciples, "is the position of a man with regard to his wife, it is better not to marry."