Bible verses about "monogamy" | Tyndale

¹ This is a true sayinge. Yf a ma covet ye office of a bysshope he desyreth a good worke. ² Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse the husband of one wyfe sober discrete honestly aparelled harberous apt to teache ³ not dronke no fighter not geve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorrynge fightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes ⁴ and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste. ⁵ For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God. ⁶ He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll ⁷ speaker. He must also be well reported of amonge them which are with out forth lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evyll speaker. ⁸ Lykwyse must the deacons be honest not double tonged not geve vnto moche drynkinge nether vnto filthy lucre: ⁹ but havynge the mistery of the fayth in pure consciece. ¹⁰ And let them fyrst be proved and then let them minister yf they be founde fautlesse. ¹¹ Even so must their wynes be honest not evyll speakers: but sober and faythfull in all thinges. ¹² Let the deacons be the husbandes of one wyfe and suche as rule their chyldren well and their awne housholdes. ¹³ For they that minister well get them selves good degre and greate libertie in the fayth which is in Christ Iesu. ¹⁴ These thinges write I vnto the trustinge to come shortly vnto the: ¹⁵ but and yf I tarie longe yt then thou mayst yet have knowledge how thou oughtest to behave thy silfe in the housse of God which is the congregacion of the livinge God the pillar and grounde of trueth. ¹⁶ And with out naye great is that mistery of godlines: God was shewed in the flesshe was iustified in the sprete was sene of angels was preached vnto the gentyls was beleved on in erth and receaved vp in glory.

¹⁸ Thou shalt not take a wife and hir sister thereto, to vexe hir that thou woldest open hir secrettes as longe as she lyueth.

⁷ And for this thinges sake shall ma leve his father and mother and bide by his wyfe ⁸ and they twayne shalbe one flesshe. So then are they now not twayne but one flesshe.

² Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse the husband of one wyfe sober discrete honestly aparelled harberous apt to teache

¹ As concerninge the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me: it is good for a ma not to touche a woman. ² Neverthelesse to avoyde fornicacio let every man have his wyfe: and let every woman have her husbande. ³ Let the man geve vnto the wyfe due benevolence. Lykwyse also the wyfe vnto the man. ⁴ The wyfe hath not power over her awne body: but the husbande. And lykewyse the man hath not power over his awne body: but the wyfe ⁵ 5. Withdrawe not youre selves one from another excepte it be with consent for a tyme for to geve youre selves to fastynge and prayer. And afterwarde come agayne to the same thynge lest Satan tempt you for youre incontinencye. ⁶ This I saye of faveour not of comaundement. ⁷ For I wolde that all men were as I my selfe am: but every man hath his proper gyfte of God one after this maner another after that. ⁸ I saye vnto the vnmaried men and widdowes: it is good for them yf they abyde eve as I do. ⁹ But and yf they canot abstayne let them mary. For it is better to mary then to burne. ¹⁰ Vnto the maryed comaunde not I but the Lorde: that the wyfe separate not her selfe from the man. ¹¹ Yf she separate her selfe let her remayne vnmaryed or be reconciled vnto her husbande agayne. And let not the husbande put awaye his wyfe from him. ¹² To the remnaunt speake I and not the lorde. Yf eny brother have a wyfe that beleveth not yf she be content to dwell with him let him not put her awaye. ¹³ And ye woma which hath to her husbande an infidell yf he consent to dwell with her let her not put him awaye. ¹⁴ For ye vnbelevynge husbande is sanctified by the wyfe: and the vnbelevynge wyfe is sanctified by the husbande. Or els were youre chyldren vnclene: but now are they pure. ¹⁵ But and yf the vnbelevynge departe let him departe. A brother or a sister is not in subiection to soche. God hath called vs in peace. ¹⁶ For how knowest thou o woman whether thou shalt save that man or no? Other how knowest thou o man whether thou shalt save that woman or no? ¹⁷ but even as God hath distributed to every man. As the lorde hath called every person so let him walke: and so orden I in all congregacios. ¹⁸ Yf eny man be called beynge circumcised let him adde nothinge therto. Yf eny be called vncircumcised: let him not be circucised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothinge vncircumcision is nothinge: but the kepyng of the comaundmentes of god is altogether. ²⁰ Let every man abyde in the same state wherin he was called. ²¹ Arte thou called a servaut? care not for it. Neverthelesse yf thou mayst be fre vse it rather. ²² For he that is called in the lorde beynge a servaunt is the lordes freman. Lykwyse he that is called beynge fre is Christes servaut. ²³ Ye are dearly bought be not mennes seruauntes. ²⁴ Brethren let everye man wherin he is called therin abyde with God. ²⁵ As concernynge virgins I have no comaundment of the lorde: yet geve I counsell as one that hath obtayned mercye of the lorde to be faythfull. ²⁶ I suppose that it is good for the present necessite. For it is good for a ma so to be. ²⁷ Arte thou bounde vnto a wyfe? seke not to be lowsed. Arte thou lowsed from a wyfe? seke not a wyfe. ²⁸ But and yf thou take a wyfe thou synnest not. Lykwyse if a virgin mary she synneth not. Neverthelesse soche shall have trouble in their flesshe: but I faver you. ²⁹ This saye I brethre the tyme is shorte. It remayneth that they which have wives be as though they had none ³⁰ and they that wepe be as though thy wept not: and they that reioyce be as though they reioysed not: and they that bye be as though they possessed not: ³¹ and they yt vse this worlde be as though they vsed it not. For the fassion of this worlde goeth awaye. ³² I wolde have you without care: the single man careth for the thinges of the lorde how he maye please the lorde. ³³ But he that hath maried careth for the thinges of the worlde howe he maye please his wyfe. ³⁴ There is differece bitwene a virgin and a wyfe. The single woman careth for the thinges of the lorde that she maye be pure both in body and also in sprete But she that is maryed careth for the thinges of the worlde how she maye please her husband. ³⁵ This speake I for youre proffit not to tangle you in a snare: but for that which is honest and comly vnto you and that ye maye quyetly cleave vnto the lorde wt out separacion. ³⁶ If eny man thinke that it is vncomly for his virgin if she passe the tyme of mariage ad if so nede requyre let him do what he listeth he synneth not: let the be coupled in mariage. ³⁷ Neverthelesse he yt purposeth surely in his herte havynge none nede: but hath power over his awne will: and hath so decreed in his herte that he will kepe his virgin doth well. ³⁸ So then he that ioyneth his virgin in maryage doth well. But he that ioyneth not his virgin in mariage doth better. ³⁹ The wyfe is bounde to the lawe as longe as her husband liveth If her husbande slepe she is at liberte to mary with whom she wyll only in the lorde. ⁴⁰ But she is happiar yf she so abyde in my iudgmet And I thinke verely that I have the sprete of God.

¹⁷ Also he shall not haue to many wyues, lest his hert turne awaye, nether shall he gather him syluer and godlde to moch.

² Neverthelesse to avoyde fornicacio let every man have his wyfe: and let every woman have her husbande.