yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you; being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

who once was worthless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

And Benjamin came back at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead; and yet they had not found enough for them.

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

On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark;

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.

Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.

What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah not to give them our daughters as wives?

However, we cannot give them wives from our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

It is a snare for a man to rashly devote something as holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.