34 Bible Verses about Being Single

But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none,

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord;

but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind.

Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

"Which one of you by being anxious is able to add even one cubit to his stature?

"The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be well lighted;

"And which of you by taking anxious thought can add a cubit to his height?

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

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

(or if she has already left him let her either remain as she is, or be reconciled to him), and also that a husband is not to put away his wife.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

"If that is the position of a man in relation to his wife," answered the disciples, "it is better not to marry."

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

I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband.

"For there are eunuchs who have been such from birth; others who have been made such by men; and others who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of God. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

I entreat you to make my joy overflow by living in harmony; possessing the same love, and with one soul united in one purpose.

"The lamp of the body is your eye; when your eye is single then your whole body is full of light; but when it is evil your whole body is full of darkness.

In one hour so great riches is made desolate!" And every shipmaster and every one who sails to any port, And sailors, and all seafaring folk,

I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is.

It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

"And not a hair on your head shall perish.

For the whole Law has been fulfilled in this one precept, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate of one pearl. And the broad street of the city was of pure gold, transparent like glass.

Finally, you should all be harmonious, sympathetic, loving as brothers, tender-hearted, humble-minded;

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

He answered them. "Not all are accepting this teaching, but only those to whom it has been granted.

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