Bible Verses About Multiple Marriages
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for multiple marriages, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,128 votes, led by Matthew 19:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Multiple Marriages
Matthew 19:975 votes
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Genesis 2:2473 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Timothy 3:270 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Corinthians 7:264 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Romans 7:358 votes
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Hebrews 13:457 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Peter 3:756 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Romans 7:248 votes
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Matthew 5:3247 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4046 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Proverbs 18:2241 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
1 Timothy 2:1241 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Deuteronomy 17:1739 votes
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Genesis 2:1836 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Titus 1:631 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Ephesians 5:3329 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
1 Timothy 3:1229 votes
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Proverbs 12:428 votes
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
2 Corinthians 6:1428 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 Kings 11:327 votes
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
Proverbs 31:1027 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
1 Corinthians 7:3927 votes
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Exodus 21:1026 votes
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
2 Samuel 12:826 votes
And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
Matthew 19:4-626 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
What does the Bible say about multiple marriages?
Readers most often cite Matthew 19:9 on the subject of multiple marriages. Across 2,128 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 2:24, 1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Corinthians 7:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.