So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

So the man gave names to all the animals, to the flying creatures of the heavens, and to every living thing of the field. But for the man there was not found a helper to complement him.

And the rib which Jehovah God had taken out of the man He rebuilt into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

Therefore a man, leaving his father and mother, and having cleaved to his wife, they are one flesh.

And He answered and said to them, Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has yoked together, let not man separate.

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

and the two shall become one flesh; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Nevertheless, because of sexual perversion, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nostrils,

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

and I will make you swear by Jehovah the God of the Heavens and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;

And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land; must I take your son back to the land from which you came?

Jehovah the God of Heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, To your seed I give this land, He will send His Angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

And Esau was forty years old when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

And they were a grief of spirit to Isaac and Rebekah.

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these daughters of the land, what kind of life is that to me?

Arise, go to Paddan, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and your seed with you, that you may inherit the land in which you are a sojourner, which God has given to Abraham.

For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; and the anger of Jehovah will burn against you and quickly destroy you.

Then everyone who trembled at the Words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the treachery of those who had been carried away captive, and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice.

And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the Jewish language, but according to the tongue of nation to nation.

Yet I planted you a noble vine, a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

one who rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all respect

(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);

Likewise women must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

If a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of loose behavior or disobedience.

that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were pleasing; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, it shall be said to them, you are Sons of the Living God.

You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Yet you say, For what reason? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; and she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, and do not let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

And if your right eye snares you into sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, and not your whole body be cast into Gehenna.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual perversions, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lusts and enticed.

Then, when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.