10 Bible Verses about Monogamy
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But he answered, "Did you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two of them shall become one'? So they are no longer two but one. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not try to separate."
But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female. Therefore a man must leave his father and mother, and he and his wife must become one,' and so they are no longer two but one.read more.
Therefore what God has joined together man must not try to separate."
Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one.
This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church. But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife on any ground but her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery."
And he said to them, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his former wife,
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and whoever marries a woman who has been divorced from her husband commits adultery.
But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own. The husband must give his wife what is due her, and the wife must do the same by her husband. A wife cannot do as she likes with her own person; it is her husband's; and in the same way a husband cannot do as he likes with his own person; it is his wife's.
The assistants must be only once married, and manage their children and their households well.
A superintendent must be a man above reproach, only once married, temperate, sensible, a man of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
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- Courting
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- Design Of Marriage
- Divorce
- Family First
- Faults
- Holiness, Believers' Growth In
- Husband And Wife
- Husbands
- Infidelity
- Israel As The Elect
- Jews As God's Chosen People
- Leadership Qualities
- Leaving Parents For Spouse
- Love Marriage
- Love, In Relationships
- Loving Children
- Loving Your Wife
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