Polygamy

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

`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 →

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee; — read the full passage →

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

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

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,

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.

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

`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;'

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

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

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,

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

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?

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.'

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.

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

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

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

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.

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

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband; — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

and he answering said to them, `What did Moses command you?'

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

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

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil; — read the full passage →

and they shall be--the two--for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

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 →

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;