Multiple Wives

If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

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;

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

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.

If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated; — read the full passage →

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.

Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.

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

I gave you your master’s house, and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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 →

and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

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

The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. — 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.

David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

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,

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

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;

Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, — read the full passage →

“I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

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.”

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

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

“So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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 →

Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

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

To David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; — read the full passage →

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. — 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,

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest. — read the full passage →

Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

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 →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

“‘You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

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.”

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →

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?”

Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

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 →

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites; — read the full passage →

“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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?’

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.

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,