34 Bible Verses about Being Single

But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

Yet I would that everybody lived as I do; but each of us has his own special gift from God--one in one direction and one in another.

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

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business--how he shall please the Lord;

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot to his height?

"The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eyesight is good, your whole body will be well lighted;

And which of you is able by anxious thought to add a moment to his life?

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

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

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

For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with the Church of Christ.

But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;

"If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife," said the disciples to Him, "it is better not to marry."

But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

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

No widow is to be put on the roll who is under sixty years of age.

There are men who from their birth have been disabled from marriage, others who have been so disabled by men, and others who have disabled themselves for the sake of the Kingdom of the Heavens. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.

The lamp of the body is the eye. When your eyesight is good, your whole body also is lighted up; but when it is defective, your body is darkened.

because in one short hour all this great wealth has been laid waste!' And every shipmaster and every passenger by sea and the crews and all who ply their trade on the sea,

I think then that, taking into consideration the distress which is now upon us, it is well for a man to remain as he is.

Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.

and yet not a hair of your heads shall perish.

For the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept the single precept, which says, "You are to love your fellow man equally with yourself."

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each of them consisting of a single pearl. And the main street of the city was made of pure gold, resembling transparent glass.

In conclusion, all of you should be of one mind, quick to sympathize, kind to the brethren, tenderhearted, lowly-minded,

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

"It is not every man," He replied, "who can receive this teaching, but only those on whom the grace has been bestowed.

Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.