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#### Confession of Faith

##### Chapter 24: Of Marriage and Divorce

Marriage is to be between one man and one woman: neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband, at the same time.[^fnref:wcf1]

[^fnref:wcf1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 2:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p class="same-paragraph" id="p01002024.01-1">Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.</p> </div><h5>Matthew 19:5-6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40019005.01-2"><span class="woc">and said, &#8216;Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh&#8217;?</span> <span class="woc">So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.&#8221;</span></p> </div><h5>Proverbs 2:17</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p20002017.01-3">who forsakes the companion of her youth<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and forgets the covenant of her God;  (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>