Malachi 2:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

For 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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For the Lord, the God of Israel, says that He hates divorce, and He covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of Hosts. Therefore, guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be unfaithful.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For 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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Yf thou hatest her, put her awaye, sayeth the LORDE God of Israel and geue her a clothinge for the scorne, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes. Loke well then to youre sprete, and despyse her not.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    If 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.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    If thou hatest her, put her away, saith the lorde God of Israel: yet he couereth the iniurie vnder his garment, saith the Lorde of hoastes, and be ye kept in your spirite, and transgresse not.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for [one] covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!' says Yahweh of Hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    For `I' hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He `who' hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For 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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For 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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel,“and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:31-32 : 31 Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce:' 32 But I say to you, that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.
  • Luke 16:18 : 18 Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.
  • Matt 19:3-9 : 3 The Pharisees also came to him, testing him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason? 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. 7 They said to him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away? 8 He said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.
  • Mark 10:2-9 : 2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? testing him. 3 And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses allowed to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her. 5 And Jesus answered and said to them, Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 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. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. 10 And in the house his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 11 And he said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.
  • Deut 24:1-4 : 1 When 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. 2 And when she has departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife; 4 Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He who covers his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 Thus says the LORD, Where is the certificate of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you have sold yourselves, and for your transgressions your mother is put away.
  • Isa 59:6 : 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
  • Mic 7:2-3 : 2 The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net. 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
  • Isa 28:20 : 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    9Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law.

    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.

    12The LORD will cut off the man who does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering to the LORD of hosts.

    13And this you have done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and crying out, so much that he regards not the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand.

    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.

    15And 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.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

  • Jer 3:1
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    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.

  • Deut 22:13
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    13If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and hates her,

  • Zech 8:17
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    17And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.

  • Luke 16:18
    72%

    18Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

  • Mal 2:17
    72%

    17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

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    2 verses
    72%

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

    12And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

  • Deut 24:3-4
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    71%

    3And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

    4Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    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.

  • Matt 19:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8He said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

    9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce:'

    32But I say to you, that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

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    11Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.

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    10Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

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

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