Singleness

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

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

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you. — read the full passage →

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. — read the full passage →

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. — read the full passage →

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. — read the full passage →

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.