Bible Verses About Multiple Wives
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for multiple wives, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,841 votes, led by Exodus 21:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Multiple Wives
Exodus 21:10280 votes
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Deuteronomy 17:17276 votes
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
1 Corinthians 7:2259 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Timothy 3:2243 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Kings 11:3217 votes
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
Isaiah 4:1193 votes
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Luke 16:18175 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
1 Timothy 3:12154 votes
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Deuteronomy 21:15-17147 votes
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
Matthew 5:32132 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.
Genesis 4:19122 votes
And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Proverbs 18:22116 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
2 Samuel 12:8113 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.
Genesis 2:24102 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matthew 19:3-20100 votes
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
1 Peter 3:189 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Ephesians 5:3187 votes
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians 5:3383 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.
Titus 1:678 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Matthew 19:3-974 votes
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
1 Samuel 1:254 votes
And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
Luke 20:27-4048 votes
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
Genesis 35:23-2641 votes
The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
Hebrews 13:431 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 6:1629 votes
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
What does the Bible say about multiple wives?
Readers most often cite Exodus 21:10 on the subject of multiple wives. Across 3,841 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 17:17, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Timothy 3:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.