Bible Verses About Procreation And Marriage

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Foundational creation command

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

Direct Bible passage on marriage as guard against fornication

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

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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 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

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For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

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And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

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And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

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Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

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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.

Godly offspring language fits the same theme

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?

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

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

Marriage bed language matches the section precisely

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

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

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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

Sets the context for sexual self-control

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.

Bible text commonly used against forbidding marriage

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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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.

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But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Allows marriage when self-control is not possible

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

Childbearing appears as part of a positive family calling

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

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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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If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

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If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

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That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

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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.

Bible passage contrasting married and unmarried care

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

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And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

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