Malachi 2:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

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  • Matt 19:4-6 : 4 And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said, 5 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh? 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.
  • Gen 1:27 : 27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 (For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
  • Prov 7:25 : 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • Jer 2:21 : 21 But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.
  • Matt 5:28-29 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart. 29 And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
  • Gen 24:3-7 : 3 And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living; 4 But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac. 5 And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came? 6 And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land. 7 The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.
  • Gen 24:44 : 44 Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?
  • Gen 28:2-4 : 2 But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. 3 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples. 4 And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.
  • Deut 7:4 : 4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
  • Ezra 9:4 : 4 Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.
  • Neh 13:24 : 24 And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.
  • Gen 2:20-24 : 20 And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help. 21 And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place: 22 And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man. 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man. 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
  • Mark 10:6-8 : 6 But from the first, male and female made he them. 7 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; 8 And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
  • John 20:22 : 22 And when he had said this, breathing on them, he said to them, Let the Holy Spirit come on you:
  • Acts 3:25 : 25 You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.
  • Eph 6:4 : 4 And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.
  • 1 Tim 3:4-5 : 4 Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour; 5 (For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
  • 1 Tim 3:11-12 : 11 Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things. 12 Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well.
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 Men having a good record, husbands of one wife, whose children are of the faith, children of whom it may not be said that they are given to loose living or are uncontrolled.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mal 2:14
    84%

    14But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

  • Mal 2:16
    83%

    16For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.

  • Gen 2:22-24
    3 verses
    73%

    22And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

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

    24For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

  • Matt 19:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

    5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

    6So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

  • Mal 2:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

    11Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.

  • Mark 10:6-9
    4 verses
    71%

    6But from the first, male and female made he them.

    7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    8And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

  • Eph 5:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

  • Prov 5:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • Jer 3:1
    69%

    1They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    69%

    2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

  • Num 5:12-14
    3 verses
    69%

    12Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

    13By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

    14If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:

  • Exod 21:10
    69%

    10And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

  • Gen 2:18
    68%

    18And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

  • Jer 3:20
    68%

    20Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Deut 28:30
    68%

    30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
    68%

    16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

  • Deut 20:7
    68%

    7Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

  • Deut 21:15
    68%

    15If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

  • Isa 54:6
    67%

    6For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.

  • Prov 2:17
    67%

    17Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

  • Mark 10:11
    67%

    11And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

  • Num 5:20
    67%

    20But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

  • Mark 12:20
    67%

    20There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring;

  • Num 5:29
    67%

    29This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

    14And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • Josh 23:12
    67%

    12For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

  • 1 Cor 7:11
    66%

    11(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

  • Isa 34:16
    66%

    16See what is recorded in the book of the Lord: all these will be there, not one without the other: the mouth of the Lord has given the order, and his spirit has made them come together.

  • Matt 22:25
    66%

    25Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

  • Lev 21:13
    66%

    13And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.

  • Deut 25:11
    66%

    11If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;

  • Heb 13:4
    66%

    4Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    66%

    27If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

  • Deut 28:54
    66%

    54That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

  • 1 Cor 7:5
    66%

    5Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.