¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^(A)I will make him a helper ^[a]suitable for him.”

²⁸ God blessed them; and God said to them, “^(A)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that ^[a]moves on the earth.”

² But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

⁹ But if they do not have self-control, ^(A)let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.