² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

⁷ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

⁸ And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

¹² Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.