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.

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• Matt 19:4–6And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
• Mal 2:14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
• Mark 10:6–8But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
• Gen 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
• Gen 2:20–24And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
• 1 Tim 3:11–12Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• 1 Cor 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
• 2 Cor 6:18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
• Titus 1:6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
• Job 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
• 1 Tim 3:4–5One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
• Hos 1:10Yet 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 unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
• Deut 7:4For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
• Prov 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
• Prov 7:25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
• Eph 6:4And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
• Jas 1:14–15But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
• Gen 24:3–7And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
• Gen 28:2–4Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
• Gen 6:2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Matt 5:28–29But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Gen 2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Gen 26:34–35And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
• Ezra 9:4Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
• Prov 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
• Neh 13:24And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
• Acts 3:25Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
• 1 Cor 7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
• Eccl 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• John 20:22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
• Gen 24:44And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master’s son.
• Gen 27:46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

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