27 Bible Verses about Transferring Wives

They were like lusty, well-fed stallions in the morning; every one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

So says Jehovah, 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 shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Why did you say, She is my sister? And so I was about to take her to me as wife. Now therefore behold your wife. Take her and go.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are about to die, for the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

And it will be when the Egyptians see you, they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save you alive.

And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold! She surely is your wife. And why did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die on account of her.

But Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had served as his friend.

And her father said, I truly thought that you utterly hated her, and I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she is? Please, let her be for you instead of her.

And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

And Saul gave his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

And Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Phaltiel the son of Laish.

Why have you despised the Word of Jehovah, to do evil in His sight? You have stricken Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

And therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

And 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 was too little, I would have given to you such and such things besides.

And he said, Please speak to Solomon the king, for he will not turn away your face, that he give me Abishag the Shunammite for my wife.

Your silver and your gold are mine, your wives also and your sons, the best are mine.

And the messengers came again and said, Ben-hadad speaks in this way, saying, Although I have sent to you saying, You shall deliver me your silver and your gold and your wives and your sons,

And their houses shall be turned to others, together with their fields and wives; for I will stretch out My hand on the people of the land, says Jehovah.

Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them, for everyone from the least even to the greatest cuts off a profit. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

So they shall bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans. And you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.

Now there were with us seven brothers. And the first, when he had married a wife, died. And, having no issue, he left his wife to his brother.

For Herod himself had sent out and laid hold on John and had bound him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. For he had married her,

and John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be, of the seven? For they all had her.

In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.

Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be? For the seven had her as a wife.