32 Bible Verses about Monogamy

And Jehovah God will build the rib which he took from the man, into a woman, and will bring her to the man. And the man will say, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; and this shall be called woman, because she was taken from man. Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his woman; and they shall be into one flesh.

And did he not make one? And the remainder of the spirit to him. And why one? Seeking a seed of God. And ye matched in your spirit, and he shall not deal faithlessly against the wife of thy youth.

And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female, And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh? So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate.

And from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this will a man leave his father and mother, and be attached to his wife; And they two shall be in one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.read more.
What therefore God yoked together, let not man separate.

For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

And I shall pass by thee and see thee, and behold, thy time the time of loves; and I shall spread my wing over thee and cover thy nakedness: and I shall swear to thee, and come into covenant with thee, says the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt be to me.

For thy Lord making thee; Jehovah of armies his name; and he redeeming thee, the Holy One of Israel; the God of the earth shall he be called. As a wife forsaken and grieved of spirit Jehovah called thee, and a wife of youth; for thou shalt be rejected, said thy God. In a little moment I forsook thee; and with great mercies I will gather thee.read more.
In the outpouring of anger I hid a moment my face from thee; and in eternal mercy I compassionated thee, said Jehovah redeeming thee.

Go and call in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah, I remembered for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy completion, thy going after me in the desert in a land not, sown. Israel is holy to Jehovah, the beginning of the produce: all consuming him shall transgress; evil shall come upon them, says Jehovah.

And it was in that day, says Jehovah, thou shalt call me, My husband; and thou shalt no more call to me, My Lord. And I put away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. And I cut out for them a covenant in that day with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and I caused them to lie down confidently.read more.
And I betrothed thee to me forever; and I betrothed thee to me in justice and in judgment, and in kindness and in compassions. And I betrothed thee to me in faithfulness, and thou knewest Jehovah.

And Jehovah will say to me, Yet go, love a woman loving evil and an adulteress, as Jehovah loves the sons of Israel, and they took to other gods and love raisin-cakes.

This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church. But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.

For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah chose in thee to be to him for a people of acquisition above all people which are upon the face of the earth.

You only did I know from all the families of the earth: for this I will review over you all your iniquities.

And now if hearing, ye shall hear to my voice, and watch my covenant, and ye were to me wealth above all peoples, for to me is all the earth. And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These the words which thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel.

And Jehovah said thee this day to be to him for a people of property, as he spake to thee, and to watch all his commands,

The Most High distributing the nations, In his dispersing the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel.

For Jah chose to himself Jacob; Israel for his property.

And Jehovah God will say, It is not good for man to be alone; I will make for him a help as before him.

Drink water from thy pit, and flowing from the midst of thy well. Thy fountains shall be dispersed without; in the broad places streams of waters. They shall be to thee alone, and not strangers with thee.read more.
Thy fountain shall be blessed: and rejoice from the wife of thy youth. The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves.

Forsaking the friend of her youth, and forgetting the covenant of her God.

And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant

When there shall be to a man two wives, the one loved and the one hated, and they bare sons to him, the loved and the hated, and the first-born son was to her being hated:

And he will go in also to Rachel, and he will also love Rachel more than Leah, and he will serve with him yet other seven years.

And there will be one man from Ramathaim-Zophim, from mount Ephraim, and his name Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: And to him two wives; the name of the one Hannah, and the name of the second Peninnah: and there will be to Peninnah children, and to Hannah no children. And this man went up from his city from days to days, to worship and to sacrifice to Jehovah of armies in Shiloh. And there the two sons of Eli, Hophni, and Phinehas, priests to Jehovah.read more.
And the day will be and Elkanah will sacrifice, and he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughter, portions And to Hannah he will give one portion more, for he loved Hannah; and Jehovah. shut up her womb. Being grieved, her distress grieved her so that she was moved because Jehovah shut up about her womb And so she will do year by year when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she will be grieved, and she will weep and will not eat And Elkanah her man will say to her, Hannah, why wilt thou weep? and why wilt thou not eat? and why will thy heart break? am I not good to thee above ten sons?

And Rehoboam will love Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines; and he will beget twenty and eight sons, and sixty daughters. And Rehoboam will set up for head, Abijah son of Maacah for leader over his brethren: in order to make him king.

And I say to you, That whoever should loose his wife, except for fornication, and marry another, commits adultery; and he having married the one loosed commits adultery.

And he says to them, Whoever should loose his wife, and should marry another, commits adultery against her.

Every one loosing his wife, and marrying another, commits adultery: and every one marrying her having been loosed from the husband commits adultery.

And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband. Let the husband return to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband. The wife of her own body has not power, but the husband: and likewise also the husband of his own body has not power, but the wife.

Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.