The New Testament teaches against polygamy through the ideal stated by Jesus and through the qualification that church leaders be monogamous (1 Tim. 3:2, 12).

• The New Testament teaches against polygamy through the ideal stated by Jesus and through the qualification that church leaders be monogamous (1 Tim. 3:2, 12).

• By the same principles, androgeny (one woman having multiple husbands), practiced by some African tribes) is also outside God’s definition of marriage.