45 Bible Verses about Being Single

I say unto the unmarried men, and widows: it is good for them if they abide even as I do,

There is difference between a virgin and a wife. The single woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be pure both in body and also in spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

For I would that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, another after that.

but and if they cannot abstain, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn.

This say I, brethren: the time is short. It remaineth that they which have wives, be as though they had none:

I would have you without care; the single man careth for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

but he that hath married, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

As concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man, not to touch a woman.

Which of you, though he took thought therefore, could put one cubit unto his stature?

The light of the body is thine eye: wherefore if thine eye be single, all thy body shall be full of light.

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

But and if thou take a wife, thou sinnest not. Likewise if a virgin marry, she sinneth not. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in their flesh: but I saver you.

If she separate herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled unto her husband again. And let not the husband put away his wife from him.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of one body though they be many, yet are but one body: even so is Christ.

Unto the married command not I, but the Lord: that the wife separate not herself from the man.

Then said his disciples to him, "If the matter be so between man and wife, then is it not good to marry."

And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all the days of their life, that they and their children after them may prosper.

And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper to bear him company."

But she is happier if she so abide, in my judgement. And I think verily that I have the spirit of God.

As concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet give I counsel as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

Let no widow be chosen under sixty years old, and such a one as was the wife of one man,

There are chaste, which were so born out of their mother's belly. And there are chaste, which be made chaste of men. And there be chaste, which have made themselves chaste for the kingdom of heavens' sake. He that can take it, let him take it."

fulfil my joy, that ye draw one way, having one love, being of one accord, and of one mind,

The light of thy body is the eye. Therefore, when thine eye is single: then is all thy body full of light. But if thine eye be evil: then shall all thy body also be full of darkness.

so that these two boards be coupled together beneath and likewise above with clamps. And so shall it be in both the corners.

for at one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every ship governor, and all they that occupied ships, and shipmen which work in the sea, stood afar off;

I suppose that it is good for the present necessity. For it is good for a man so to be.

This speak I for your profit, not to tangle you in a snare: but for that which is honest and comely unto you; And that ye may quietly cleave unto the Lord without separation.

And I will give you one heart, and will plant a new spirit within your bowels. That stony heart will I take out of your body, and give you a fleshly heart:

Yet there shall not one hair of your heads perish.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, which is this, "Thou shalt love thine neighbour as thyself."

If he came alone, he shall go out alone: If he came married, his wife shall go out with him.

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, every gate was of one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, as through shining glass.

He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in a house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity, but letteth the renegades continue in scarceness.

One witness shall not rise against a man in any manner trespass or sin, whatsoever sin a man sinneth: But at the mouth of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall all matters be tried.

In conclusion, be ye all of one mind, one suffer with another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous,

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife: and let every woman have her husband.

Yea, and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, honestly appareled, harborous, apt to teach,

He said unto them, "All men cannot away with that saying, save they to whom it is given.

Look through Jerusalem, behold and see. Seek through her streets also within, if ye can find one man, that doth equal and right, or that laboureth to be faithful: and I shall spare him, sayeth the LORD.

as it is written, "There is none righteous, no not one:

It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a chiding and an angry woman.

For there is not one just upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land grow to a wilderness: and the beasts of the field multiply upon thee.