Polygamy

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

“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 →

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you; — read the full passage →

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

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

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,

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.

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

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

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.”

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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?’

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.”

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.

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

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

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

He answered, “What did Moses command you?”

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

“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 →

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

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

and the two will become one flesh,so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.