What Does the Bible Say About Better To Marry Than To Burn?

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 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 7:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 2 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 Corinthians 7:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.

1 Corinthians 7:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 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.

1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ...

Romans 7:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

Mark 10:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

22 Bible Verses about Better To Marry Than To Burn

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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22 Bible Verses about Better To Marry Than To Burn

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1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes