11 Bible Verses about Monogamy
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And he answering said, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them male and female? And He said: "For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh." So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God joined together, let not man put asunder.
But, from the beginning of the creation, [God] made them male and female. "For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother; and the two shall become one flesh." So they are no longer two, but one flesh.read more.
What therefore God joined together, let not man put asunder.
"For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."
This mystery is a great one; but I am speaking of Christ and of the church. However, do ye also severally love each one his own wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.
And I say to you, Whoever putteth away his wife, except for fornication, and marrieth another, committeth adultery.
And he saith to them, Whoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery against her.
Whoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and he who marrieth a woman that hath been put away from her husband, committeth adultery.
but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife her due; and so also the wife to her husband. The wife hath not the disposal of her own body, but her husband; and so also the husband hath not the disposal of his own body, but his wife.
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching;
if any one is without reproach, the husband of one wife, having believing children, that are not accused of dissoluteness, or unruly.
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