11 Bible Verses about Not Marrying

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.

Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me."

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;