47 Bible Verses about Waiting Till Marriage

When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and one doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

and Jacob serveth for Rachel seven years; and they are in his eyes as some days, because of his loving her.

and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.

For better that he hath said to thee, 'Come thou up hither,' Than that he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.

for them do ye wait till that they grow up? for them do ye shut yourselves up, not to be to a husband? nay, my daughters, for more bitter to me than to you, for the hand of Jehovah hath gone out against me.'

Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit;

and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

Move not, I pray Thee, from this, till my coming in unto Thee, and I have brought out my present, and put it before Thee;' and he saith, 'I -- I do abide till thy return.'

Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have been to-night to a husband, and also I have borne sons:

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

And Jacob loveth Rachel, and saith, 'I serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter:'

'Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;

'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;

and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,

and did not know her till she brought forth her son -- the first-born, and he called his name Jesus.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

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

For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.

And she saith, 'Sit still, my daughter, till thou dost know how the matter falleth, for the man doth not rest except he hath completed the matter to-day.'

'And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast,

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

'But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

'Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.

and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed -- even as they.

fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.'

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, 'What -- we are sitting here till we have died;

Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?

'And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping,

and I, John, saw the holy city -- new Jerusalem -- coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;

For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

and they declare it to David, and he sendeth to meet them, for the men have been greatly ashamed, and the king saith, 'Abide in Jericho till your beard doth spring up -- then ye have returned.'

may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready;

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!

and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

And Judah saith to Tamar his daughter-in-law, 'Abide a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son groweth up;' for he said, 'Lest he die -- even he -- like his brethren;' and Tamar goeth and dwelleth at her father's house.

And Naomi saith, 'Turn back, my daughters; why do ye go with me? are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have been to you for husbands?

And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they are flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

and he causeth him to rest in charge -- to explain to them by the mouth of Jehovah.

And another of his disciples said to him, 'Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;'

and unto the elders he hath said, 'Abide ye for us in this place, until that we turn back unto you, and lo, Aaron and Hur are with you -- he who hath matters doth come nigh unto them.'

Saying, 'Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.

His mother saith to the ministrants, 'Whatever he may say to you -- do.'

'And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;