Malachi 2:15

God made husband and wife one and seeks godly offspring, so each man must guard his spirit and not betray the wife of his youth.

Cross-references · 34

• Matt 19:4–6Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
• Mal 2:14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
• Mark 10:6–8However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
• Gen 1:27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
• Gen 2:20–24The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
• 1 Tim 3:11–12In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
• 1 Cor 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
• 2 Cor 6:18And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
• Titus 1:6An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
• Job 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
• 1 Tim 3:4–5An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
• Hos 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
• Jer 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
• Deut 7:4because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
• Prov 6:25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
• Prov 7:25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
• Eph 6:4Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• Jas 1:14–15But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
• Gen 24:3–7and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,
• Gen 28:2–4“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
• Gen 6:2the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
• Matt 5:28–29But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
• Gen 2:7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
• Gen 26:34–35When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
• Ezra 9:4Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat there in horror until the evening offering.
• Prov 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
• Neh 13:24Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.
• Acts 3:25And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
• 1 Cor 7:2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
• Eccl 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• John 20:22When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
• Gen 24:44and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.
• Gen 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

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