11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth.

You shall not take you a wife, neither shall you 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 have a husband also tonight, and should also bear sons;

Would you tarry for them till they were grown? would you refrain from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieves me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

His disciples said unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

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

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better.

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her harlotry out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;