19 Bible Verses about Singleness

For it is written, Rejoice, O thou barren one who dost never bear, Break forth in joy, thou that dost not travail; For the children of the desolate woman are many. Yea, more than hers who has a husband.

I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

"If that is the position of a man in relation to his wife," answered the disciples, "it is better not to marry." He answered them. "Not all are accepting this teaching, but only those to whom it has been granted. "For there are eunuchs who have been such from birth; others who have been made such by men; and others who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of God. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it."

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

But exclude from the list the younger widows; for where they have become wanton against Christ, they desire to marry, and incur condemnation because they have broken their first troth. Moreover, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and are not only idlers, but gossips also, and busybodies, repeating things they ought not.read more.
It is my wish, then, that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule their houses, and give no occasion to our adversary for railing.

I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence. I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.read more.
Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband. Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person, but her husband is; and in the same way the husband is not master of his own person, but his wife is.read more.
Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin. But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's business, how he may please the Lord; but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind. Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.read more.
It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

"'I have taken a wife,' said the another, 'and for that reason I am unable to come.'

Now Philip had four unmarried daughters who prophesied,

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to supplications and prayers, day and night.

"For in the resurrection men do not marry, nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven.

When they rise from the dead men do not marry, and women are not given in marriage, but they are as the angels are in heaven.

"but those who are counted worthy to reach that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

Indeed, brothers, the time that remains to us has been shortened; so let those who have wives live as if they had none, let those who weep be as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.