45 Bible Verses about Being Single

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

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

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

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

But this I say, brethren, The time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though they had none;

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

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

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

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

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thy eye be single, thy whole body will be full of light.

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

Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

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

But if she shall 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 hath 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, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man is 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 for ever, 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 help meet for him.

But she is happier if she so remain, 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 hath obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man.

For there are some eunuchs, who were so born from their mothers womb: and there are some eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by 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 ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thy eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thy eye is evil, thy 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: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. And every ship-master, and all the company in ships, 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 comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; 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, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl; and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth 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 sinneth; at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, 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 to them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its broad places, if ye can find a man, if there is any that executeth judgment, that seeketh 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 an angry woman.

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

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