11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

They will forbid marrying, [and command] to abstain from food, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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

Return home, my daughters. I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought there was still hope, and got married and had sons,

would you wait for them to grow up? Would this keep you from marrying someone else? No, my daughters, you know that is not possible. Jehovah has turned against me. I feel sorry for you.

Fire consumed his best young men, so his virgins were not given in marriage.

The disciples said to him: This being the case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.

Concerning the things that you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch (have sex with) a woman.

If you marry you have not sinned. If a virgin marries she has not sinned. Those who marry will face many problems in this life and I want to spare you.

So then he who gives his virginity in marriage does well; but he who does not get married does even better.

Plead with your mother (your nation), for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband. Let her put away her acts of adultery from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts!

I will say this brothers the time remaining is short. So from now on those who have wives should be like those who have none.