² Well, because of the danger of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

⁶ However, at the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.^{[a] 7} For this reason, a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, ⁸ and the two are to become one flesh.^[b] Thus they are no longer two, but one.

² A congregation leader must be above reproach, he must be faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, orderly, hospitable and able to teach.

¹² Let the shammashim each be faithful to his wife, managing his children and household well.

³¹ “Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and remain with his wife, and the two will become one.”^[a]