11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

Most Relevant Verses

Jeremiah 16:2

"Thou shalt take thee no wife, nor beget children in this place.

Ruth 1:12

Turn again my daughters and go: for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, also if I took a man this night: yea, and though I had already borne sons?

Ruth 1:13

Would ye tarry after them, till they were of age? Or would ye for them so long refrain from taking of husbands? Not so, my daughters: for it grieveth me much for your sakes, that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me."

Psalm 78:63

The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given in marriage.

1 Corinthians 7:38

So then he that joineth his virgin in marriage doth well. But he that joineth not his virgin in marriage doth better.

Hosea 2:2

As for your mother, ye shall chide with her, and reprove her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband, unless she put away her whoredoms out of my sight, and her adultery from her breasts.

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