Multiple Wives

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

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. — read the full passage →

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

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

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.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

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,

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

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.”

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.” — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says. — read the full passage →

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,