What Does the Bible Say About Serving God As A Single Person?

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

1 Corinthians 7:7-8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Timothy 5:3-7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Romans 12:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

1 Samuel 12:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

1 Timothy 5:9-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.

1 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 7:29-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

John 12:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Mark 12:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Mark 10:45 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 16:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.

1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Deuteronomy 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

1 Corinthians 15:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

1 Corinthians 7:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

John 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

43 Bible Verses about Serving God As A Single Person

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:7-8 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 12:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:9-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:29-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 12:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 12:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 10:45 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:10-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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