24 Bible Verses about Waiting Till Marriage

but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.

and be like men waiting for the coming of their lord, when he shall return from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately.

But if they wish to learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for a woman to speak in an assembly.

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

Blessed are those servants whom their lord when he comes shall find watching. I tell you truly, that he will gird himself, and cause them to recline, and he will come and wait upon them.

When you are invited by any one to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest at some time a more honorable man than you should have been invited by him,

Let each one remain in the calling in which he was called;

and she had been a widow eighty-four years, and departed not from the temple, serving God night and day with fastings and prayers.

and knew her not till she bore a son, and he called his name Jesus.

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not boastful, is not puffed up,

And there was Anna, a prophetess, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher; she was far advanced in years, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;

And the king coming in to see the guests observed there a man who had not on a wedding garment,

watching him, to catch something from his mouth.

But when you are invited, go and sit down in the last place, that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher; then you shall have honor in the presence of those that recline with you;

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

And a white robe was given them, and it was told them to rest yet a little while, till their fellow servants and their brothers and those about to be killed as they also had been should finish [their testimony].

for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; he is the savior of the body.

Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar?

And while the bridegroom delayed, 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 be glad, and give glory to him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his wife has prepared herself,

Another of the disciples said to him, Lord, permit me first to go away and bury my father.

His mother said to the servants, Do whatever he tells you.

For I wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery; that you may not be wise in your own conceit. For hardness in part has come upon Israel, till the fullness of the gentiles shall come in,