45 Bible Verses about Being Single

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

But if they cannot have self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

But I would have you without concern. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Now concerning the things of which you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light.

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

But if she depart, 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 that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

His disciples said unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.

But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

Let not a widow be put on the list under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

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

Fulfill you my joy, that you be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

The lamp of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is sound, your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

And they shall be coupled together at the bottom, and they shall be coupled together at the top of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

For in one hour such great riches is come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all seafarers, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is proper, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh:

But there shall not a hair of your head perish.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: each of the gates was a single pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

Finally, be all of one mind, having compassion one with another, love as brethren, be tender hearted, be courteous:

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, only they to whom it is given.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if you can find a man, if there is any that executes justice, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.

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

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman.

For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.

I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against you.