11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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

Turn again, my daughters, go. 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 wait for them until they were grown? Will you shut yourselves up, not to have a husband? No, my daughters, for it makes me very sad for your sakes that the hand of Jehovah has gone out against me.

The fire burned up their young men; and their maidens were not given in marriage.

His disciples said to Him, If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not good to marry.

Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

So then he who gives in marriage does well. But he who does not give in marriage does better.

Contend! Contend with your mother, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. Let her therefore put away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

But this I say, brothers, The time is short. It remains that both those who have wives should be as not having one.