²² It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.

¹⁸ However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

¹ Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.

⁹ yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,{Onesimus means "useful."}

¹¹ who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

¹² I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

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

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

⁷ For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join 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 snare to a man to make a rash dedication, Then later to consider his vows.

¹⁴ Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.

⁷ How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

¹³ In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark;

²⁷ God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.