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 19:4–6He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
• Mal 2:14Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
• Mark 10:6–8But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
• Gen 1:27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
• Gen 2:20–24The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.
• 1 Tim 3:11–12Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
• 1 Cor 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
• 2 Cor 6:18I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
• Titus 1:6if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
• Job 27:3(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
• 1 Tim 3:4–5one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
• Hos 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
• Deut 7:4For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
• Prov 6:25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
• Prov 7:25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
• Eph 6:4You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• Jas 1:14–15But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
• Gen 24:3–7I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
• Gen 28:2–4Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
• Gen 6:2God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
• Matt 5:28–29but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Gen 2:7Yahweh 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 26:34–35When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
• Ezra 9:4Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
• Prov 4:23Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
• Neh 13:24and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
• Acts 3:25You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.’
• 1 Cor 7:2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
• Eccl 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• John 20:22When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
• Gen 24:44and she will tell me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,” — let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’
• Gen 27:46Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

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