24 Bible Verses about Waiting Till Marriage

But if they have not power over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

and your lamps burning, And be like men that wait for their Lord, when he will return from the wedding, that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

And if they desire to learn any thing, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is indecent for a woman to speak in the assembly.

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

Happy are those servants, whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and make them sit down to table, and will come forth and serve them.

saying to them, When thou art invited by any man to a marriage-feast, sit not down in the highest place, lest a more honourable man than thou be invited by him,

Let every one in the calling wherein he is called, therein abide.

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers, night and day.

But he knew her not, till she had brought forth her Son, the first-born. And he called his name Jesus.

Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love acteth not rashly, is not puffed up:

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher: she was of a great age, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity.

But the king coming in to see the guests, saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment,

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

go and sit down in the lowest place, that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour in the presence of them that sit at table with thee. For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that

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

And there was given to them, to every one, a white robe; and it was said to them, that they should rest yet for a time, till their fellow servants also and their brethren should be fulfilled, who should be killed even as they were.

For the husband is head of the wife, as Christ also is head of the church:

Know ye not, that they who are employed about holy things, are fed out of the temple? And they who wait at the altar, are partakers with the altar.

While the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

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

Let us be glad and rejoice and give the glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

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

Mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith to the servants, Whatsoever he saith to you, do.

Brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits) that hardness is in part happened to Israel, till the fulness of the Gentiles be come in: