Bible Verses About Polygamy

If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.

Also thou shalt not take a wife with her sister, during her life, to vexe her, in vncouering her shame vpon her.

Neither shall hee take him many wiues, lest his heart turne away, neither shall he gather him much siluer and golde.

If a man haue two wiues, one loued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the loued and also the hated: if the first borne be the sonne of the hated,

Then when the time commeth, that hee appointeth his sonnes to be heires of that which he hath, he may not make the sonne of the beloued first borne before the sonne of the hated, which is the first borne:

But he shall acknowledge the sonne of the hated for the first borne, and giue him double portion of all that he hath: for hee is the first of his strength, and to him belongeth the right of the first borne.

And he had two wiues: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

And gaue thee thy lordes house, and thy lords wiues into thy bosome, and gaue thee the house of Israel, and of Iudah, and would moreouer (if that had bene too litle) haue giuen thee such and such things.

And Iehoiada tooke him two wiues, and he begate sonnes and daughters.

And in that day shall seuen women take hold of one man, saying, Wee will eate our owne bread, and we wil weare our owne garments: onely let vs bee called by thy name, and take away our reproche.

Then said the Lord to me, Goe yet, and loue a woman (beloued of her husband, and was an harlot) according to the loue of the Lord toward the children of Israel: yet they looked to other gods, and loued the wine bottels.

So I bought her to me for fifteene pieces of siluer, and for an homer of barlie and an halfe homer of barlie.

Yet yee say, Wherein? Because the Lord hath beene witnesse betweene thee and the wife of thy youth, against whome thou hast transgressed: yet is shee thy companion, and the wife of thy couenant.

And did not hee make one? yet had hee abundance of spirit: and wherefore one? because he sought a godly seede: therefore keepe your selues in your spirit, and let none trespasse against the wife of his youth.

And he answered and sayd vnto them, Haue ye not read, that hee which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,

And sayd, For this cause, shall a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

Then the Pharises came and asked him, if it were lawfull for a man to put away his wife, and tempted him.

And he answered, and sayde vnto them, What did Moses commaund you?

And they sayd, Moses suffered to write a bill of diuorcement, and to put her away.

Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, For the hardnesse of your heart he wrote this precept vnto you.

But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female:

For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

And they twaine shalbe one flesh: so that they are no more twaine, but one flesh.

A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,

Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.