Genesis 4:19

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.

Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.