11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

who forbid marrying [and insist on] abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who know the truth,

"You shall not take for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place."

Turn back, my daughters! Go, for {I am too old to have a husband}. If I should think there is hope for me, even if I should have a husband [this] night, and even if I should bear sons,

would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore {refrain from marrying}? No, my daughters, for it is far more bitter to me than [to] you. For the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me."

Fire devoured his young men, and his young women were not praised.

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be 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 the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, and the one who does not marry [her] will do better.

Plead with your mother, plead-- because she [is] not my wife, and I [am] not her husband. Let her put away her whoring {from before her}, and her adultery from between her breasts.

But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],