45 Bible Verses about Being Single

Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: [It is] good for them if they remain as I [am].

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn [with sexual desire].

But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as [if they] do not have [wives],

But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

Now concerning [the things] about which you wrote: "[It is] good for a man not to touch a woman."

And who among you, [by] being anxious, is able to add one hour to his life span?

"The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light.

And which of you [by] being anxious is able to add an hour to his life span?

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

But if indeed she does separate, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce [his] wife.

For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, [although they] are many, are one body, thus also Christ.

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry!"

And I will give to them one heart and one way, to revere me {forever}, for good to them, and to their children after them.

Then Yahweh God said, "[it is] not good [that] the man is alone. I will make for him a helper {as his counterpart}."

But she is happier if she remains thus, according to my opinion--and I think I have the Spirit of God.

Now concerning virgins I do not have a command from the Lord, but I am giving an opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

Let a widow be put on the list [if she] is not less than sixty years [old], the wife of one husband,

For there are eunuchs who were born as such from [their] mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves [eunuchs] for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept [this], let him accept [it]."

complete my joy, so that {you are in agreement}, having the same love, united in spirit, {having one purpose}.

Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body [is] dark also.

They will be double at the bottom, and they will be completely together on its top to the one ring; it will be likewise for the two of them; they will be for the two corners.

because in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!" And every shipmaster and {every seafarer} and sailors and all those who labor on the sea stood {far off}

Therefore, I consider this to be good because of the impending distress, that [it is] good for a man to be thus.

Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not that I may put a restriction on you, but to promote appropriate and devoted service to the Lord without distraction.

And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in their inner parts. And I will remove their heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh,

Even a hair of your head will never perish!

For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

If he comes in single, he will go out single. If he is the husband of a wife, his wife will go out with him.

And the twelve gates [are] twelve pearls, each one of the gates was from a single pearl. And the street of the city [is] pure gold, like transparent glass.

God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land.

{The testimony of a single witness may not be used to convict} [with respect to] any crime and for any wrongdoing in any offense that a person committed; on the {evidence} of two witnesses or on the {evidence} of three witnesses {a charge shall be sustained}.

And finally, all [of you be] harmonious, sympathetic, showing mutual affection, compassionate, humble,

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.

Therefore the overseer must be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching,

But he said to them, "Not everyone can accept this saying but [those] to whom it has been given.

"Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person [who] does justice, [who] seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.

just as it is written, "[There] is no one righteous, not even one;

Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.

Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who [continually] does good and never sins.

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a desolation and {the wild animals} multiply against you.