11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

“You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”

Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons,

would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters; for it is harder for me than for you, for the hand of the Lord has gone forth against me.”

Fire devoured His young men,
And His virgins had no wedding songs.

The disciples *said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

“Contend with your mother, contend,
For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;
And let her put away her harlotry from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;