Jeremiah 29:6

New International Version

Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.

Cross References

Genesis 21:21

While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

Genesis 24:51

Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has directed.”

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the cities of their enemies.”

Genesis 29:19

Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.”

Genesis 34:4

And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”

Genesis 9:7

As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.’ ”

1 Timothy 5:14

So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in thirty young women as wives from outside his clan. Ibzan led Israel seven years.

Judges 14:2

When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”