Malachi 2:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Did not God make them one, with a portion of His spirit in their union? And what was the one seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    So dyd not the one, & yet had he an excellent sprete. What dyd then the one? He sought the sede promised of God. Therfore loke well to youre sprete, & let no man despyse ye wife of his youth.

  • 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.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And did not he make one? yet had he aboundaunce of spiritie: And wherfore one? Because he sought a godly seede: therefore kepe your selues in your spirite, and let none transgresse against the wyfe of his youth.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And He did not make one `only', And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what `is' the one `alone'! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 19:4-6 : 4 And he answered and said to them, Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? 6 Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
  • Gen 1:27 : 27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
  • 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD God formed man from 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 beautiful; and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.
  • Job 27:3 : 3 As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.
  • Prov 7:25 : 25 Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
  • Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to 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 to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.
  • Matt 5:28-29 : 28 But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 And if your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you: for it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Gen 24:3-7 : 3 and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. 4 But you shall go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac." 5 And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?" 6 And Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back there. 7 The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
  • Gen 24:44 : 44 and she says to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son.'
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 Which were a grief of mind to 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 takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these who are of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?
  • Gen 28:2-4 : 2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. 3 And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude of people; 4 And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you; that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.
  • Deut 7:4 : 4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.
  • Ezra 9:4 : 4 Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel assembled to me, because of the transgression of those who had been carried away; and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice.
  • Neh 13:24 : 24 and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of each people.
  • Gen 2:20-24 : 20 And Adam gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 And with the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, He made a woman and brought her to the man. 23 And Adam 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 mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Mark 10:6-8 : 6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. 7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
  • John 20:22 : 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit:
  • Acts 3:25 : 25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.
  • Eph 6:4 : 4 And, you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
  • 1 Tim 3:4-5 : 4 One who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all respectfulness; 5 For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?
  • 1 Tim 3:11-12 : 11 In the same way, their wives must be dignified, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 If anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mal 2:14
    84%

    14Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.

  • Mal 2:16
    83%

    16For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce; for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts; therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

  • Gen 2:22-24
    3 verses
    73%

    22And with the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, He made a woman and brought her to the man.

    23And Adam 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 mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Matt 19:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4And he answered and said to them, Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

    5And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

    6Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

  • Mal 2:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Mark 10:6-9
    4 verses
    71%

    6But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

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

    8And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

  • Eph 5:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

    32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

  • Prov 5:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

    18Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

  • Jer 3:1
    69%

    1They say, If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, shall he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    69%

    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Num 5:12-14
    3 verses
    69%

    12Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,

    13And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act;

    14And if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, who has defiled herself; or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself:

  • Exod 21:10
    69%

    10If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

  • Gen 2:18
    68%

    18And the LORD God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.

  • Jer 29:6
    68%

    6Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may have sons and daughters; that you may increase there and not diminish.

  • Jer 3:20
    68%

    20Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

  • Deut 28:30
    68%

    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
    68%

    16What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

  • Deut 20:7
    68%

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

  • Deut 21:15
    68%

    15If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated,

  • Isa 54:6
    67%

    6For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.

  • Prov 2:17
    67%

    17Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Mark 10:11
    67%

    11And he said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

  • Num 5:20
    67%

    20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:

  • Mark 12:20
    67%

    20Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died, leaving no offspring.

  • Num 5:29
    67%

    29This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband and defiles herself;

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    67%

    13If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and hates her,

    14And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin.

  • Josh 23:12
    67%

    12Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you:

  • 1 Cor 7:11
    66%

    11But if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

  • Isa 34:16
    66%

    16Seek out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.

  • Matt 22:25
    66%

    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

  • Lev 21:13
    66%

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • Deut 25:11
    66%

    11When men fight with each other, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and seizes him by his private parts,

  • Heb 13:4
    66%

    4Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    66%

    27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

  • Deut 28:54
    66%

    54So that the man who 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 which he shall leave:

  • 1 Cor 7:5
    66%

    5Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.