11 Bible Verses about Monogamy
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He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning said, Hence a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined, then, man must not separate."
But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them: hence a man shall leave his father and mother, and the pair shall be one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.read more.
What God has joined, then, man must not separate."
Therefore shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh.
This is a profound symbol, I mean as regards Christ and the church. However, let every man of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife reverence her husband.
I tell you, whoever divorces his wife except for unchastity and marries another woman, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."
and he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman is an adulterer to the former,
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman 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 the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his; the wife cannot do as she pleases with her body ??her husband has power, and in the same way the husband cannot do as he pleases with his body ??his wife has power.
Deacons are only to be married once, and they must manage their children and households properly.
Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,
men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.
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