11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.

Thou shall not take thee a wife, nor shall thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

Turn again, my daughters. Go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope. If I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons,

would ye therefore delay till they were grown? Would ye therefore stay from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of LORD has gone forth against me.

Fire devoured their young men, and their virgins had no marriage-song.

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man with his wife is this way, it is not advantageous to marry.

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

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

And therefore he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.

Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having,