Malachi 2:15 - Revised Standard Version

¹⁵ Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

Malachi 2:15 Cross References

Genesis 1:27

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

Genesis 2:7

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

Genesis 24:44

and who will say to me, “Drink, and I will draw for your camels also,” let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master's son.’

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.

Ezra 9:4

Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered round me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.

Nehemiah 13:24

and half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but the language of each people.

Job 27:3

as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

Proverbs 2:17

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

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all vigilance; for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

Proverbs 7:25

Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Sons of the living God.”

Leviticus 20:10

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness to the covenant between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

John 20:22

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 3:25

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God gave to your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your posterity shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

2 Corinthians 6:18

and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 7:4

For they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Titus 1:6

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.

Ruth 4:12

and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the children that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

1 Samuel 2:20

Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “The Lord give you children by this woman for the loan which she lent to the Lord”; so then they would return to their home.