Bible Verses About Polygamy: Forbidden

`And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

And he doth not multiply to himself wives, and his heart doth not turn aside, and silver and gold he doth not multiply to himself--exceedingly.

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

And He did not make one only , And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone ! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made them , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him,

and he answering said to them, `What did Moses command you?'

and they said, `Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.'

And Jesus answering said to them, `For the stiffness of your heart he wrote you this command,

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

and they shall be--the two--for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--