34 Bible Verses about Being Single

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It would be good for them, if they remain as I myself.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

for I could wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that.

But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not;

But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

but he that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Which of you, by his anxiety, can add one span to his life?

The lamp of the body is the eye: if, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be light:

"Which of you, by his anxiety, can add one span to his life?

Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

but if she leave him, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and, let not the husband put away his wife.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband:

His disciples said to him: If the relation of man and wife be such, it is not good to marry.

But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I have, also, the Spirit of God.

But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

Let a widow be put on the list, if she is not under sixty years, having been the wife of one man,

For there are eunuchs that were born such from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs that have been made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs that have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let him accept it that is able to accept it.

fulfill my joy, that you be of the same mind, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind;

The lamp of the body is the eye; when, therefore, your eye is sound, your whole body also is light; but if it be diseased, your body also is dark.

And every master of a ship, and every one in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off,

I think, then, that this is good for the present affliction that it is good for a man to be as he is.

I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction.

Yet a hair of your head shall not perish.

For all the law is fulfilled in one commandment, in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

Finally, be all of the same mind, be sympathizing, lovers of the brethren, kind-hearted, humble-minded;

But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

But he said to them: All can not accept this saying; only those to whom it is given.

as it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;