Matthew 19:10
His disciples say to Him, If the cause of a man with his wife is thus, it is better not to marry.
1 Corinthians 7:1-2
But concerning those things about which you wrote to me: That it is good for a man not to receive a wife:
1 Corinthians 7:8
But I speak to the unmarried and the widows, that it is good for them that they may remain even as I:
1 Corinthians 7:26-28
But I consider this to be good on account of the present distress, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians 7:32-35
I wish you to be free from solicitude. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, in order that he may please the Lord:
1 Corinthians 7:39-40
A wife has been given so long a time as her husband may live; but if her husband may die, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.
1 Timothy 5:11-15
But reject the younger widows: for when they may wax wanton against Christ, they wish to marry;