Bible Verses About Polygamy And Marriage

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

Solomon's wives and heart turned away

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

King warned not to multiply wives

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

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And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Genesis narrative of Lamech taking two wives

But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

Abijah married many wives

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

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Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

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There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

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And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

Matthew parallel to one-flesh teaching

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Mark parallel to one-flesh teaching

And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.

David took more wives at Jerusalem

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Every man have his own wife

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Context for not marrying and marriage as good

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Marriage is honorable passage

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Creation saying about one flesh used for marriage permanence

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

One-wife requirement for church leaders

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Marriage itself not sinful

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Forbidding to marry as error

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

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There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Speaks of married and unmarried states

And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Marks remarriage after divorce as adultery

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

Marks divorce and remarriage as adultery against the wife

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Bound to a wife, seek not another

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Luke version of the same saying

And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

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His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

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If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

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Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

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And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Matthew 19:9 directly states remarriage after divorce is adultery

So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Marriage to another while spouse lives is adultery

Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

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But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Matthew 5:32 directly states remarriage after divorce is adultery

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

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And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.

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