Malachi 2:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁴ And you ask, ‘Why? ’ Because even though the Lord has been a witness  between you and the wife of your youth,  you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner  and your wife by covenant.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Yet 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Yet you ask, Why does He reject it? Because the Lord was witness [to the covenant made at your marriage] between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously and to whom you were faithless. Yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant [made by your marriage vows].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ But you say, “Why?” Because the LORD testifies about you and the wife of your youth against whom you cheated. She is your partner, the wife of your covenant.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And you have said, "What is the reason for this?" It is because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have despised. Yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.

Malachi 2:14 Cross References

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding  to him.’

Genesis 31:50

If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.’

Proverbs 2:17

who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’

Proverbs 5:20

Why, my son, would you lose yourself with a forbidden woman or embrace a wayward woman?

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting  life,  which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle  under the sun.

Song of Solomon 1:15

How beautiful you are, my darling. How very beautiful! Your eyes are doves.

Isaiah 54:6

For the Lord has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, a wife of one’s youth  when she is rejected,’ says your God.

Isaiah 58:3

‘Why have we fasted, but you have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed! ’ ‘Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have committed an outrage  in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbours’ wives and have spoken in my name a lie, which I did not command them. I am he who knows, and I am a witness.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 42:5

And they said to Jeremiah, ‘May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we don’t act according to every word the Lord your God sends you to tell us.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably? They weren’t at all ashamed. They can no longer feel humiliation. Therefore, they will fall among the fallen. When I punish them, they will collapse,’ says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had a traveller’s lodging place in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a solemn assembly of treacherous people.

Ezekiel 16:8

‘ “Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of my garment over you and covered your nakedness.  I pledged myself to you,  entered into a covenant with you #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God  #– #and you became mine.

Micah 1:2

Listen, all you peoples; pay attention, earth  and everyone in it! The Lord God will be a witness against you, the Lord, from his holy temple.

Malachi 2:15

Didn’t God make them one and give them a portion of spirit? What is the one seeking?  Godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully,  , so that no one acts treacherously against the wife of his  youth.

Malachi 3:5

‘I will come to you in judgement, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the hired worker, the widow, and the fatherless; and against those who deny justice to the resident foreigner.  They do not fear me,’  says the Lord of Armies.

Malachi 3:8

‘Will a man rob  God? Yet you are robbing me! ’ ‘How do we rob you? ’ you ask. ‘By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.

Judges 11:10

The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, ‘The Lord is our witness if we don’t do as you say.’

1 Samuel 12:5

He said to them, ‘The Lord is a witness against you, and his anointed is a witness today that you haven’t found anything  in my hand.’ ‘He is a witness,’ they said.