When asked about marriage, Jesus said: “He who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh. ’ ” ​ — Matthew 19: 4, 5.
बायबलमध्ये असेही म्हटलेले आहे, की ख्रिस्ती मंडळीत ज्या विवाहित पुरुषाला खास जबाबदाऱ्‍या दिल्या जातात तो केवळ “एका स्त्रीचा पती, ” असावा. — १ तीमथ्य ३: २, १२.