Multiple Wives

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him, — read the full passage →

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.'

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children, — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

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

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, `If the Son thou art of God, cast thyself down hence,

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;' — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

because of this the woman ought to have <FI>a token of<Fi> authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith; — read the full passage →

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,