11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

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

“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.

Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying? No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me.”

Fire consumed His chosen young men,
and His young women had no wedding songs.

His disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it’s better not to marry!”

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have relations with a woman.”

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

So then he who marries his virgin does well, but he who does not marry will do better.

Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.
For she is not My wife and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face
and her adultery from between her breasts.

And I say this, brothers: The time is limited, so from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none,