11 Bible Verses about Monogamy

And He, answering, said, "Did you not read that He Who made them from the beginning made them 'male and female,' and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?" so that 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, 'Male and female made He them.' For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, [and shall cleave to his wife], and the two shall become one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh.read more.
What, therefore, God joined together, let not man put asunder."

For this cause, will a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

This mystery is great; but I am speaking of Christ and of the assembly. Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each one, so love his own wife, as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery."

And He saith to them, "Whosoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her;

"Every one who puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband, commits adultery.

but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to the wife her due; and, in like manner, the wife to the husband. The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

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

It is needful, therefore, that the bishop be irreproachable, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, hospitable, apt to teach,

if anyone is blameless, a husband of one wife, having believing children not in accusation of rioting, or unruly.