24 Bible Verses about Waiting Till Marriage

but if they cannot control themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

and be yourselves like men waiting for the return of their lord from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock; if any one hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Happy are those servants, whom their lord when he cometh shall find watching; truly do I say to you, that he will gird himself, and place them at table, and will come and wait on them.

When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not take the highest place, lest one more honorable than thou may have been invited by him;

Let every one remain in the same calling in which he was called.

and she was a widow eightyfour years old, who never left the temple, worshipping with fastings and prayers night and day.

and he knew her not till she had brought forth a son: and he called his name Jesus.

Love suffereth long, is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not herself, is not puffed up,

And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel: of the tribe of Asher; she was of great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;

And the king, coming in to view the guests, saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment;

lying in wait to catch something out of his mouth.

But when thou art invited, go and recline in the lowest place, that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher. Then wilt thou have honor in the presence of all who are at table with thee.

Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

And a white robe was given to them, and it was said to them that they should rest yet for a time, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that were about to be killed as they were, should finish their course.

for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church,he, who is the Saviour of the body.

Do ye not know, that they who minister in the offerings of the temple live from the temple? that they who serve at the altar share with the altar?

And as the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Let us rejoice and exult, and we will give to him the glory; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready;

And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

His mother saith to the servants, Whatever he saith to you, do it.

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness hath to some extent come upon Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles shall have come in.