18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; ⁿI will make him a helper fit for¹ him.”

28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, ^s“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, ^ethey should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.