Malachi 2:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And did not God make [you and your wife] one [flesh]? Did not One make you and preserve your spirit alive? And why [did God make you two] one? Because He sought a godly offspring [from your union]. Therefore take heed to yourselves, and let no one deal treacherously and be faithless to the wife of his youth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Didn’t he make her the one and the remnant of his spirit? What is the one? The one seeking godly offspring. You should guard your own spirit. Don’t cheat on the wife of your youth

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Did not One make her, and is she not the remainder of his spirit? And what does one seek, except offspring of God? So then, preserve your spirit, and do not despise the wife of your youth.

Malachi 2:15 Cross References

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground  and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils,  and the man became a living being.

Genesis 24:44

and who responds to me, “Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels also” #– #let her be the woman the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.

Genesis 27:46

So Rebekah said to Isaac, ‘I’m sick of my life because of these Hethite girls.  If Jacob marries someone from around here,  like these Hethite girls, what good is my life? ’

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God  saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

Ezra 9:4

Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel  gathered around me, because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles,  while I sat devastated until the evening offering.

Nehemiah 13:24

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples but could not speak Hebrew.  ,

Job 27:3

as long as my breath is still in me and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,

Exodus 20:14

Do not commit adultery.

Proverbs 2:17

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

Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.

Proverbs 6:25

Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.

Proverbs 7:25

Don’t let your heart turn aside to her ways; don’t stray onto her paths.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.

Leviticus 20:10

‘If a man commits adultery  with a married woman #– #if he commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife #– #both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

Malachi 2:14

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.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies,   slander.

John 20:22

After saying this, he breathed on them  and said,  ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 3:25

You are the sons  of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.   ,

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is made holy  by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy by the husband.  Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because sexual immorality is so common,  , each man should have sexual relations with his own wife,  and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.

2 Corinthians 6:18

And I will be a Father   to you, and you will be sons   and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.   ,

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, don’t stir up anger  in your children, but bring them up in the training  and instruction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 7:4

because they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods.  Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you,  and he will swiftly destroy you.

Titus 1:6

An elder  must be blameless,  the husband of one wife, with faithful  children who are not accused of wildness or rebellion.

Ruth 4:12

May your house become like the house of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah,  because of the offspring the Lord will give you by this young woman.’

1 Samuel 2:20

Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife:  ‘May the Lord give you children by this woman in place of the one she  has given to the Lord.’  Then they would go home.