45 Bible Verses about Being Single

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

for I wish all men to be even as I myself am; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

'And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

'The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened,

and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ,

and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

His disciples say to him, 'If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:

And Jehovah God saith, 'Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'

and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive it -- let him receive.'

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing -- having the same love -- of one soul -- minding the one thing,

'The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened;

And they are pairs beneath, and together they are pairs above its head unto the one ring; so is it for them both, they are for the two corners.

'And every shipmaster, and all the company upon the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, far off stood,

I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man that the matter be thus: --

And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh.

and a hair out of your head shall not perish;

for all the law in one word is fulfilled -- in this: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

if by himself he cometh in, by himself he goeth out; if he is owner of a wife, then his wife hath gone out with him;

And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each several one of the gates was of one pearl; and the broad-place of the city is pure gold -- as transparent glass.

God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

'One witness doth not rise against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he sinneth; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, is a thing established.

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

And he said to them, 'All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;

Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.

according as it hath been written -- 'There is none righteous, not even one;

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.

Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.

I cast them not out from before thee in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field hath multiplied against thee;