Bible Verses About Polygamy: Forbidden

You are not to take a woman to be a rival with her sister and have sexual relations with her while her sister is still alive.

Likewise, he is not to acquire many wives for himself, so that his heart will not turn away; and he is not to acquire excessive quantities of silver and gold.

Nevertheless, you ask, "Why is this?" Because ADONAI is witness between you and the wife of your youth that you have broken faith with her, though she is your companion, your wife by covenant.

And hasn't he made [them] one [flesh] in order to have spiritual blood-relatives? For what the one [flesh] seeks is a seed from God. Therefore, take heed to your spirit, and don't break faith with the wife of your youth.

He replied, "Haven't you read that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

and that he said, `For this reason a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two are to become one flesh'?

Some P'rushim came up and tried to trap him by asking him, "Does the Torah permit a man to divorce his wife?"

He replied, "What did Moshe command you?"

They said, "Moshe allowed a man to hand his wife a get and divorce her."

But Yeshua said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardheartedness.

However, at the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

For this reason, a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,

and the two are to become one flesh. Thus they are no longer two, but one.

A congregation leader must be above reproach, he must be faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, orderly, hospitable and able to teach.

Let the shammashim each be faithful to his wife, managing his children and household well.

A leader must be blameless, husband to one wife, with believing children who do not have a reputation for being wild or rebellious.