34 Bible Verses about Being Single

To unmarried people and to widows I would say this: It would be a fine thing for them to remain single, as I am.

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but a married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how she can please her husband.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

But if they do not practice self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burning in the fire of passion.

I mean this, brothers. The time has been cut short. For the future, men who have wives should live as though they had none,

I want you to be free from worldly worries. An unmarried man is concerned about the affairs of the Lord.

A married man is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how he can please his wife, and so his devotion is divided.

Now I take up the matters about which you wrote me. It may be good thing for a man to remain unmarried;

But which of you by worrying can add a single minute to his life?

"The eye is the very lamp of the body. If then your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

Which of you by worrying can add a single minute to his life?

Are you married? Stop trying to get a divorce. Are you unmarried? Stop looking for a wife.

But if you do get married, you have not sinned in doing so. And if a girl gets married, she has not sinned in doing so. But those who do will have trouble in their earthly life, and I am trying to spare you this.

But if she does leave him, she must remain single, or better, be reconciled to her husband. I instruct the husband too not to divorce his wife.

For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.

To the people already married I give this instruction -- no, not I but the Lord -- that a wife is not to leave her husband.

The disciples said to Him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, there is no advantage in getting married."

But in my opinion she will be happier, if she remains as she is, and I think too that I have God's Spirit.

About unmarried women I have no command from the Lord, but I will give you my opinion as of one who is trustworthy, since I have had mercy shown me by the Lord.

No widow under sixty years of age should be put on this roll. A widow must have had but one husband,

For some are born incapable of marriage, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let him accept it who can."

fill up my cup of joy by living in harmony, by fostering the same disposition of love, your hearts beating in unison, your minds set on one purpose.

Your eye is the very lamp of your body. When your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light. But if your eye is unsound, your body is full of darkness.

because in a single hour a wealth so vast has been destroyed!' All ship pilots and all who travel by sea, sailors and seafaring men, stood a long way off

Now this is my opinion in the light of the present distress: That it is a good thing for a man to remain as he is.

It is for your welfare that I am saying this, not to put restraint on you, but to foster good order and to help you to an undivided devotion to the Lord.

And yet not a single hair on your head will perish.

For the whole law is summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate built of a single pearl. The Broadway of the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass.

Finally, you must all live in harmony, be sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

but because of so much sexual immorality every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

He said to them, "It is not every man who has the capacity to carry out this saying, but it is for those to whom the capacity has been given.

as the Scriptures say: "Not a single human creature is upright,