44 Bible Verses about Singleness

And the damsel's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he dislikes her.

And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

Also when a woman vows a vow to LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father remains silent at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand. But if her father disallows her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. And LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

And Caleb said, He who smites Kiriath-sepher, and takes it, I will give to him Achsah my daughter to wife. And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it, and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to thee for a wife. Only be thou valiant for me, and fight LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be

And for his sister a virgin, who is near to him, who has had no husband, for her he may defile himself.

Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as LORD has spoken.

and said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a reproach to us. Only on this condition will we consent to you: If ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised.

And they shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves. But for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house. LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept. And they said to her, No, but we will return with thee to thy people.read more.
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Why will ye go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Turn again, 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 ye therefore delay till they were grown? Would ye therefore stay from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of LORD has gone forth against me.

Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up, for he said, Lest he also die, like his brothers. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread, but there shall no stranger eat of it.

And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem-judah, and was there the space of four months.

And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel, then they shall bring the damsel out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall thou

And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: Let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions. And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months. And she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed, and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

For LORD has called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit. Even a wife of youth when she is cast off, says thy God.

And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lay with him, that we may preserve seed by our father.

The sons of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me. Give a place to me that I may dwell. Then thou shall say in thy heart, Who has begotten these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were

Thou shall no more be termed Forsaken, nor shall thy land any more be termed Desolate. But thou shall be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah, for LORD delights in thee, and thy land shall be married.

Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren woman not giving birth. Burst forth and shout, thou not suffering birth pains, because many more are the children of the desolate than of her who has the husband.

Sing, O barren, thou who did not bear. Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou who did not travail with child. For more are the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married woman, says LORD.

For I wish all men to be even as myself. However each man has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another after that.

Thou shall not take thee a wife, nor shall thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man with his wife is this way, it is not advantageous to marry. But he said to them, Not all men can accommodate this saying, but to whom it has been given. For there are eunuchs who were born this way from their mother's belly, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs because of the kingdom of the heavens. He who is able to

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

But refuse younger widows, for when they are sexually aroused, they desire of the Christ to marry, which has condemnation because they have disregarded the original pledge. And also at the same time they learn to be idle, roving the houses, and not only idle, but also babbling and meddlesome, speaking things that they ought not.read more.
I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

Now concerning the virgins I have no commandment of Lord, but I give an opinion, as having obtained mercy from Lord to be trustworthy. I suppose therefore this to be good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to be this way: Are thou bound to a wife? Do not seek separation. Are thou free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.read more.
But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband. The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife.read more.
Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. But I say this from concession not from commandment.

And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day. Come not near a woman.

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread. If only the young men have kept themselves from women. And David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days. When I came out the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey. How much more then today sh

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But I want you to be without worry. The unmarried man cares for things of the Lord, how he will please the Lord. But he who is married cares for things of the world, how he will please his wife. And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how sread more.
And I say this for your own benefit, not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for what is respectable and assiduous toward the Lord, undistracted.

And another said, I married a wife, and because of this I cannot come.

Now four virgin daughters who prophesied were with this man.

But the real widow, and made alone, has hoped in God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as agents of God in heaven.

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as agents in the heavens.

but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

But this I say, brothers, the time is shortened. It is the remaining, so that also those who have wives may be as not having, and those who weep, as not weeping, and those who rejoice, as not rejoicing, and those who buy, as not possessing, and those who use this world, as not making full use, for the form of this world passes away.