11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

"Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

Go back home, my daughters! For I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought that there was hope that I could get married tonight and conceive sons,

surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me. For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the Lord is afflicting me!"

Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins remained unmarried.

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!"

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

Plead earnestly with your mother (for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,