He said: “Let each man have his own wife and each woman have her own husband. ” Paul also was inspired to write that any man appointed as an overseer or a ministerial servant in the Christian congregation must be “a husband of one wife. ” ​ — 1 Timothy 3: 2, 12; Titus 1: 6.
पौलाला असेही लिहिण्याची प्रेरणा मिळाली, की ख्रिस्ती मंडळीत पर्यवेक्षक अथवा सेवा सेवक म्हणून नियुक्‍त केला जाणारा बांधव “एका स्त्रीचा पति असावा. ” — १ तीमथ्य ३: २, १२; तीत १: ६.