11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

"You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.

Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,

would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me."

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

The disciples said to him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry."

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.

"Plead with your mother, plead-- for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband-- that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,