Proper Marriage Before God (Continuation of what was omitted)

Proper Marriage Before God (Continuation of what was omitted)
Author: Mark V. Markov

The books of Timothy and Titus
Are in the Bible
Much later on
After the 1st Book Of Corinthians

And the instruction
In them tells us.
The word of God
Shares with us
That unless

The man is an overseer,
Deacon, or an elder.
If he has that position,
He has to have one wife.

Obviously if he is not
In that position
Then there's nothing wrong
To have more
Than one wife.
If you inquire of God
And get permission  

It is not
A requirement
To have more then one wife.
It is based
On preference
With a confirmation
From God.

To have more then one wife
Is not mandatory
When you believe in God
When you believe in Jesus Christ...


Titus 1:6 (ESV)
if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

1 Timothy 3:12 (ESV)
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

1 Corinthians 7:1-5 (ESV)
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Timothy 3:2 (ESV)
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Titus 1:6 (ESV)
if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

1 Timothy 3:12 (ESV)
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

Titus 1:5-10 (ESV)
Qualifications for Elders
5 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—
6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
7 For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,
8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

The books of Timothy and Titus are in the Bible much later after the 1st Of Corinthians
and the instruction in them tells us, that unless the man is an overseer, deacon, or an elder
where he has to have one wife.
the man is allowed to have more than one wife.
It is not a requirement to have more than one.

Matthew 19:5-6 (ESV)
5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Mark 10:5-9 (ESV)
5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
 
Genesis 32:22 (ESV)
22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Genesis 4:19 (ESV)
And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Genesis 32:20-22 (ESV)
 20 and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

21 So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.