Bible Verses for Singles

“A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.”

“You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.”

“Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.”

“God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.”

“God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.”

“Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.”

“Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.”

“Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.”

“Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.”

“Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.”

“Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.”

“You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.”

“Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.”

““Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children.’”

“Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’””

““Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.”

“For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.”

“For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.”

“You will not be called Forsaken any more; nor will your land be called Desolate any more: but you will be called Hephzibah,Hephibah means “I delight in her”. and your land Beulah;Beulah means “married” for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.”

“For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.”

“They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspringor, seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.”

“Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.”

“Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring.or, seed Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.”

““You have heard that it was said, TR adds “to the ancients”. ‘You shall not commit adultery;’Exodus 20:14”

“For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.”

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

““You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.”

“Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,”

“that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.””

“For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.”

“rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;”

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

“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 he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.”

“What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.”

“For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.” Isaiah 54:1”

“speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”

“make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;”

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.”

“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.”

“We know, brothersThe word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” loved by God, that you are chosen,”

“We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers,The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;”

“forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.”

“Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.”

“I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.”

“Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

“to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.”

“Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”Deuteronomy 31:6”

“Count it all joy, my brothers,The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” when you fall into various temptations,”

“Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”