Verses
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- He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
- You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
- Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
- Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
- Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
- …and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
- Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired. …
- An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
- An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.