45 Bible Verses about Being Single

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

The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who 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 am. But each has his proper gift from God, one according to this manner and another according to that.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

But this I say, brothers, The time is short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.

But I desire you to be without anxiety. The one who is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how to please the Lord.

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how to please his wife.

Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?

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

And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?

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

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

But if she is indeed separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave 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 to the married I command (not I, but the Lord), a woman not to be separated from her husband.

His disciples said to Him, If this is the case of the man 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 their good and for the good of their sons after them.

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

But she is happier if she so remains, according to my judgment. And I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

But concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord. Yet I give my judgment, as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

Do not let a widow be enrolled having become less than sixty years old, the wife of one man,

For there are some eunuchs who were born so 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 kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.

then fulfill my joy, that you may be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord and of one mind.

The light 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 beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it to one ring. So it shall be for them both. They shall be for the two corners.

For in one hour such great riches was desolated. And every ship-pilot, and all the company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood afar off.

Then I think this is good, because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be so.

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

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will remove 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. Respectively, each one of the gates was one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass.

God causes the lonely to live at home; 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 made sure.

And finally, all be of one mind, having compassion on one another, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly.

But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

Then it behooves the overseer to be without reproach, husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, well-ordered, hospitable, apt at teaching,

But He said to them, Not all receive this word, except those to whom it is given.

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.

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

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

For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a waste, and the beast of the field multiply against you.