Malachi 2:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

And did not hee make one? yet had hee abundance of spirit: and wherefore one? because he sought a godly seede: therefore keepe your selues in your spirit, & let none trespasse against the wife of his youth.

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  • Matt 19:4-6 : 4 And he answered & sayd vnto them, Haue ye not read, that hee which made them at the beginning, made them male and female, 5 And sayd, For this cause, shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh. 6 Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.
  • Gen 1:27 : 27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified to the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified to the husbande, els were your children vncleane: but nowe are they holie.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the grounde, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a liuing soule.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 Then the sonnes of God sawe the daughters of men that they were faire, & they tooke them wiues of all that they liked.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 Yet so long as my breath is in me, and the Spirit of God in my nostrels,
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Desire not her beautie in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye lids.
  • Prov 7:25 : 25 Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And dust returne to the earth as it was, and the spirit returne to God that gaue it.
  • Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted thee, a noble vine, whose plants were all natural: howe then art thou turned vnto me into the plants of a strange vine?
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the nomber of the children of Israel shall be as the sande of the sea, which can not be measured nor tolde: and in the place where it was saide vnto them, Yee are not my people, it shall be saide vnto them, Yee are the sonnes of the liuing God.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet yee say, Wherein? Because the Lorde hath beene witnesse betweene thee and the wife of thy youth, against whome thou hast transgressed: yet is shee thy companion, and the wife of thy couenant.
  • Matt 5:28-29 : 28 But I say vnto you, that whosoeuer looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adulterie with her already in his heart. 29 Wherefore if thy right eye cause thee to offend, plucke it out, & cast it from thee: for better it is for thee, that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.
  • Gen 24:3-7 : 3 And I will make thee sweare by ye Lorde God of the heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites among who I dwel. 4 But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, & take a wife vnto my sone Izhak. 5 And the seruant saide to him, What if the woman will not come with me to this land? Shall I bring thy sonne againe vnto the lande from whence thou camest? 6 To whom Abraham answered, Beware that thou bring not my sonne thither againe. 7 The Lord God of heauen, who tooke me from my fathers house, and from the land where I was borne, and that spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, Vnto thy seede wil I giue this land, he shall send his Angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife vnto my sonne fro thence.
  • Gen 24:44 : 44 And she say to me, Drinke thou, and I will also drawe for thy camels, let her be ye wife, which the Lord hath prepared for my masters sonne.
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 Nowe when Esau was fourtie yeere olde, he tooke to wife Iudith, the daughter of Beeri an Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon an Hittite also. 35 And they were a griefe of minde to Izhak and to Rebekah.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Also Rebekah said to Izhak, I am weary of my life, for the daughters of Heth. If Iaakob take a wife of the daughters of Heth like these of the daughters of the lande, what auaileth it me to liue?
  • Gen 28:2-4 : 2 Arise, get thee to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and thence take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother. 3 And God all sufficient blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, and multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people, 4 And giue thee the blessing of Abraham, euen to thee & to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest inherite the lande (wherein thou art a stranger,) which God gaue vnto Abraham.
  • Deut 7:4 : 4 For they wil cause thy sonne to turne away from me, and to serue other gods: then will the wrath of the Lord waxe hote against you and destroy thee suddenly.
  • Ezra 9:4 : 4 And there assembled vnto me all that feared the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of them of the captiuitie; I sate downe astonied vntil the euening sacrifice.
  • Neh 13:24 : 24 And their children spake halfe in ye speach of Ashdod, and could not speake in the Iewes language, and according to the language of the one people, and of the other people.
  • Gen 2:20-24 : 20 The man therefore gaue names vnto all cattell, and to the foule of the heauen, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam founde he not an helpe meete for him. 21 Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof. 22 And the ribbe which the Lorde God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man. 24 Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
  • Mark 10:6-8 : 6 But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female: 7 For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife. 8 And they twaine shalbe one flesh: so that they are no more twaine, but one flesh.
  • John 20:22 : 22 And when he had saide that, he breathed on them, and saide vnto them, Receiue the holy Ghost.
  • Acts 3:25 : 25 Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the couenant, which God hath made vnto our fathers, saying to Abraham, Euen in thy seede shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And I will be a Father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lord almightie.
  • Eph 6:4 : 4 And ye, fathers, prouoke not your children to wrath: but bring them vp in instruction and information of the Lord.
  • 1 Tim 3:4-5 : 4 One that can rule his owne house honestly, hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie. 5 For if any cannot rule his owne house, how shall he care for the Church of God?
  • 1 Tim 3:11-12 : 11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things. 12 Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 If any be vnreproueable, the husbande of one wife, hauing faithfull children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised. 15 Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth foorth sinne, and sinne when it is finished, bringeth foorth death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mal 2:14
    84%

    14Yet yee say, Wherein? Because the Lorde hath beene witnesse betweene thee and the wife of thy youth, against whome thou hast transgressed: yet is shee thy companion, and the wife of thy couenant.

  • Mal 2:16
    83%

    16If thou hatest her, put her away, sayeth the Lorde God of Israel, yet he couereth the iniurie vnder his garment, saieth the Lord of hosts: therefore keepe your selues in your spirite, and transgresse not.

  • Gen 2:22-24
    3 verses
    73%

    22And the ribbe which the Lorde God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

    24Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

  • Matt 19:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4And he answered & sayd vnto them, Haue ye not read, that hee which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,

    5And sayd, For this cause, shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

    6Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.

  • Mal 2:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Haue we not all one father? hath not one God made vs? why doe we transgresse euery one against his brother, and breake the couenant of our fathers?

    11Iudah hath transgressed, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Ierusalem: for Iudah hath defiled the holinesse of the Lorde, which hee loued, and hath maried the daughter of a strange God.

  • Mark 10:6-9
    4 verses
    71%

    6But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female:

    7For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

    8And they twaine shalbe one flesh: so that they are no more twaine, but one flesh.

    9Therefore, what God hath coupled together, let not man separate.

  • Eph 5:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.

    32This is a great secrete, but I speake concerning Christ, and concerning the Church.

  • Prov 5:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.

    18Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

  • Jer 3:1
    69%

    1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she goe from him, and become another mans, shall hee returne againe vnto her? Shall not this land be polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many louers: yet turne againe to mee, sayeth the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    69%

    2Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

  • Num 5:12-14
    3 verses
    69%

    12Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, If any mans wife turne to euill, and commit a trespasse against him,

    13So that an other man lie with her fleshly, and it bee hid from the eyes of her husbande, and kept close, and yet she be defiled, and there be no witnesse against her, neither she taken with the maner,

    14If he be moued with a ielous minde, so that he is ielous ouer his wife, which is defiled, or if he haue a ielous minde, so that he is ielous ouer his wife, which is not defiled,

  • Exod 21:10
    69%

    10If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.

  • Gen 2:18
    68%

    18Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6Take you wiues, and beget sonnes and daughters, and take wiues for your sonnes, and giue your daughters to husbands, that they may beare sonnes and daughters, that ye may bee increased there, and not diminished.

  • Jer 3:20
    68%

    20But as a woman rebelleth against her husband: so haue yee rebelled against me, O house of Israel, sayeth the Lord.

  • Deut 28:30
    68%

    30Thou shalt betroth a wife, & another man shal lye with her: thou shalt builde an house, and shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eate the fruite.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
    68%

    16Doe ye not knowe, that he which coupleth himselfe with an harlot, is one body? for two, sayeth he, shalbe 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 returne againe vnto his house, lest he die in the battell, and another man take her.

  • Deut 21:15
    68%

    15If a man haue two wiues, one loued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the loued and also the hated: if the first borne be the sonne of the hated,

  • Isa 54:6
    67%

    6For the Lord hath called thee, being as a woman forsaken, and afflicted in spirite, and as a yong wife when thou wast refused, sayth thy God.

  • Prov 2:17
    67%

    17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, if so be shee finde no fauour in his eyes, because hee hath espyed some filthinesse in her, then let him write her a bill of diuorcement, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Mark 10:11
    67%

    11And he sayd vnto them, Whosoeuer shal put away his wife and marrie another, committeth adulterie against her.

  • Num 5:20
    67%

    20But if thou hast turned fro thine husband, and so art defiled, and some man hath lyen with thee beside thine husband,

  • Mark 12:20
    67%

    20There were seuen brethren, and the first tooke a wife, and when he died, left no issue.

  • Num 5:29
    67%

    29This is the law of ielousie, when a wife turneth from her husband and is defiled,

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13If a man take a wife, and when he hath lyen with her, hate her,

    14And laye slaunderous thinges vnto her charge, and bring vp an euill name vpon her, and say, I tooke this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a mayde,

  • Josh 23:12
    67%

    12Els, if ye goe backe, and cleaue vnto the rest of these nations: that is, of them that remaine with you, and shall make marriages with them, and goe vnto them, and they to you,

  • 1 Cor 7:11
    66%

    11But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled vnto her husband, & let not the husband put away his wife.

  • Isa 34:16
    66%

    16Seeke in the booke of the Lord, and reade: none of these shall fayle, none shall want her make: for his mouth hath commaunded, and his very Spirit hath gathered them.

  • Matt 22:25
    66%

    25Nowe there were with vs seuen brethren, and the first maried a wife, and deceased: and hauing none yssue, left his wife vnto his brother.

  • Lev 21:13
    66%

    13Also he shall take a maide vnto his wife:

  • Deut 25:11
    66%

    11When men striue together, one with another, if the wife of the one come neere, for to ridde her husband out of the handes of him that smiteth him, and put foorth her hand, and take him by his priuities,

  • Heb 13:4
    66%

    4Mariage is honorable among all, and the bed vndefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    66%

    27Art thou bounde vnto a wife? Seeke not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? Seeke not a wife.

  • Deut 28:54
    66%

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  • 1 Cor 7:5
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    5Defraude not one another, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may giue your selues to fasting and praier, and againe come together that Satan tempt you not for your incontinecie.