34 Bible Verses about Being Single

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman, and the virgin, is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, how she may please her husband.

I wish that all men were as I myself am. But each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

I mean, brethren, the appointed time has grown very short; so that from now on, those who have wives should live as though they had none,

But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

but a married man is concerned about the affairs of the world, how he may please his wife,

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his span of life?

The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.

And which of you by worrying can add a single cubit to his span of life?

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have troubles in this flesh, and I am trying to spare you.

(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband

The disciples said to him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry."

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

Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

A widow is to be put on the list only if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one husband,

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it."

make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

In one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!' And every shipmaster and all passengers and sailors, and all who make their living by the sea, stood far off,

I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.

This I say for your own benefit, not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is good and to secure undivided devotion to the Lord.

But not a hair of your head will perish.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble in spirit.

But because of immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

But he said to them, "Not all men can accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given.

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