24 Bible Verses about Waiting Till Marriage

But if they do not practice self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burning in the fire of passion.

and be like men waiting for their master when he comes home from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they at once may open the door for him.

If they want to find out about something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church.

I am now standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and feast with him, and he with me.

Happy are those slaves whom the master, when he comes, will find on the watch for him. I solemnly say to you, he will tighten his belt and have them sit at table, and he will go around and wait on them.

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding supper, never take the best place, for someone of greater distinction than you may have been invited,

Everybody must remain in the station in which he was called.

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

but he did not live with her as a husband until she had had a son; and he named Him Jesus.

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

There was also a prophetess there, Hannah, a daughter of Phanuel, who belonged to the tribe of Asher.

But when the king came in to take a look at the guests, he saw there a man who did not have on a wedding suit.

plotting, as if in ambush, to entrap Him in something that might fall from His lips.

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he may say to you, 'My friend, come up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow-guests.

So you must keep on watching, for you do not know either the day or the hour.

Then a white robe was given to each of them, and they were told to keep quiet a little while longer, until the number of their fellow-slaves and brothers, who were killed as they had been, was complete.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.

Do you not know that those who do the work about the temple get their living from the temple, and those who constantly attend on the altar share its offerings?

While the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and dropped off to sleep.

And I saw the new Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride to join her husband.

Let us be glad and shout for joy and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.

Another of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, let me first go back and bury my father."

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

For to keep you from being self-conceited, brothers, I do not want to have a misunderstanding of this uncovered secret, that only temporary insensibility has come upon Israel until the full quota of the heathen peoples comes in,