Malachi 2:15

American Standard Version (1901)

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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  • Matt 19:4-6 : 4 And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh? 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
  • Gen 1:27 : 27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 (For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
  • Prov 7:25 : 25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
  • Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
  • Matt 5:28-29 : 28 but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29 And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. [
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
  • Gen 24:3-7 : 3 and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac. 5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? 6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. 7 Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.
  • Gen 24:44 : 44 and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom Jehovah hath appointed for my master's son.
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
  • Gen 28:2-4 : 2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples; 4 and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.
  • Deut 7:4 : 4 For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.
  • Ezra 9:4 : 4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening oblation.
  • Neh 13:24 : 24 and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
  • Gen 2:20-24 : 20 And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him. 21 And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: 22 and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Mark 10:6-8 : 6 But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; 8 and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.
  • John 20:22 : 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit:
  • Acts 3:25 : 25 Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
  • Eph 6:4 : 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
  • 1 Tim 3:4-5 : 4 one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity; 5 (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
  • 1 Tim 3:11-12 : 11 Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mal 2:14
    84%

    14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

  • Mal 2:16
    83%

    16For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

  • Gen 2:22-24
    3 verses
    73%

    22and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

    23And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Matt 19:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female,

    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  • Mal 2:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

    11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Mark 10:6-9
    4 verses
    71%

    6But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

    7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

    8and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

    9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  • Eph 5:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

  • Prov 5:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.

    18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

  • Jer 3:1
    69%

    1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    69%

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • Num 5:12-14
    3 verses
    69%

    12Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

    13and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;

    14and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

  • Exod 21:10
    69%

    10If he take him another [wife] ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

  • Gen 2:18
    68%

    18And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

  • Jer 3:20
    68%

    20Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah.

  • Deut 28:30
    68%

    30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
    68%

    16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

  • Deut 20:7
    68%

    7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • Deut 21:15
    68%

    15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;

  • Isa 54:6
    67%

    6For Jehovah hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God.

  • Prov 2:17
    67%

    17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Mark 10:11
    67%

    11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:

  • Num 5:20
    67%

    20But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

  • Mark 12:20
    67%

    20There were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed;

  • Num 5:29
    67%

    29This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

    14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

  • Josh 23:12
    67%

    12Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;

  • 1 Cor 7:11
    66%

    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

  • Isa 34:16
    66%

    16Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

  • Matt 22:25
    66%

    25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his brother;

  • Lev 21:13
    66%

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • Deut 25:11
    66%

    11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

  • Heb 13:4
    66%

    4[ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    66%

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

  • Deut 28:54
    66%

    54The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining;

  • 1 Cor 7:5
    66%

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.