²² And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.

¹⁸ Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

¹ Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.

⁹ Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

¹⁰ My request is for my child Onesimus, the child of my chains,

¹¹ Who in the past was of no profit to you, but now is of profit to you and to me:

¹² Whom I have sent back to you, him who is my very heart:

² But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

⁶ But from the first, male and female made he them.

⁷ For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

⁸ And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

²⁵ It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.

¹⁴ Then Benjamin came back; and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.

⁷ What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.

¹³ On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;

²⁷ And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.